Oral history transcript, Philip Lee, interview 1 (I), 1/18/1969, by David G. McComb

[For interviews 1 and 2] Biographical information; family planning; LBJ's motivation for interest in health programs; international health; Wilbur Cohen; John Gardner; White House Conference on Health; meeting with LBJ; Food for Peace; LBJ after gall bladder operation; Erhard Dinner, December 20, 1965; White House Task Force on Health and Legislative Program; heart-cancer-stroke; child health; Hill-Burton modification; Social Security proposals; Outside and Inside task forces; Cater and other White House contacts; Betty Furness; governing HEW; effectiveness of Cohen; accomplishments as Assistant Secretary; attitude of AMA; relations with doctors; discussions with LBJ regarding NIH budget; Rat Bill; LBJ, civil rights and HEW; transition to Nixon Administration; changes in doctors' attitudes towards working with government; Gardner's leadership.