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intelligent and nice person; and Dr. Marion Fay, a former President of a women's college; and Mrs. Harry Truman and Mrs. Mahoney. All these names were accepted.
He finally at a news conference on Saturday, the 7th of March, listed the names of the people of this commission. I'm reading from the New York Times of Sunday, March 8th. I suggested that Mr. Mike DeBakey be the Chairman of the Commission, and the President accepted this suggestion. The other names that I suggested were Barry Bingham, Marion Folson, Emerson Foote--chairman of the board of McCann-Erikson--Howard Rusk--the head of the Rehabilitation Institute at New York University,-- Dr. Paul Sanger of Charlotte, North Carolina, Dr. Edward Dempsey, the Dean of George Washington University in St. Louis, Dr. Hugh Hussey of the AMA, Dr. Irving Wright, the expert in cardiology at Cornell University, Dr. Sidney Farber of the Children's Hospital in Boston, Dr. Lee Clerk of
Hospital at Houston, Dr. E. M. Papper, Professor of Anesthesiology at Columbia, Dr. Philip Handler of Duke University at Durham, North Carolina. I also suggested the name of Dr. Helen Taussig. She's the expert on blue babies and helped to devise an operation that cures them; she's from Johns Hopkins University.
The President suggested the names of Mr. John Carter, the Editor of McCall's magazine, and General Alfred Gruenther, and Mr. James Oakes of the Equitable Life Insurance Company. I suggested General Sarnoff and Mrs. Arthur Crimm didn't wish to serve, so she suggested the name of Dr. Frank Horsfall, Jr. of
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