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Davidson was able to commit their names because he had releases from them to commit their names for promotion of any general liberal legislation that he felt was.

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As of now, comprehensive health insurance and substantial aid to nursing education are still to be implemented. Aid to medical education has just gone through this year, in 1963, although we did get such a bill through the Senate in 1949. It failed because I didn't press the House Committee strongly enough in 1950, when we could have gotten it out. It took 13 more years to get it done, and I didn't have anything to do with its passage this time, except inasmuch that Mike Gorman worked on it.

Why was there such a haitus?

Because the AMA was really against it, turned against it. They decided that all bills having to do with medical legislation was dangerous.

And this time it was the impact of the Administration that really put it over.

Yes, the Administration really pushed it, and the AMA really was discredited; they had behaved in such a capricious way that Orin Harris was sufficiently disgusted so that he pushed it.