Oral history transcript, Michael E. DeBakey, interview 1 (I), 6/29/1969, by David G. McComb

Biographical information; time in New Orleans at Tulane University; studying in Europe; member of the Department of Surgery at Tulane; military service in 1942-1944 with the Surgeon General; post-war medical research program with the Veterans' Administration; Medical Committee of the Hoover Commission; instrumental in the establishment of the National Library of Medicine; service with the Department Medical Advisory Council; involvement with many study section of the National Institutes of Health; associated with LBJ both in Congress and when VP about health projects; LBJ's sense of humanitarianism; early Medicare conflicts; LBJ's success in Medicare Bill passage; assigned chairman of the Department of Surgery at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston; working association with Wilbur Cohen; Chairman of the President's Commission to study heart disease, cancer and strokes; development of federally funded regional medicinal program centers (legislation passed while LBJ was President)