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- election you joined the Kennedy Administration as special
assistant to the Secretary of HEW for Health and Medical Affairs. How did that come
about?
J:
I think I will have to go back and recount the circumstances that led to this kind of
situation. While
- , and Welfare (HEW); 1961 morale in the Kennedy administration; Jones' involvement in the introduction of Medicare; opposition to health program legislation; the introduction of Medicaid by the American Medical Association (AMA); JFK's meeting with members
- was the deputy budget director, talked to Ehrlichman or [H. R.] Haldeman. I also
talked to [Robert F.] Ellsworth and I think some of us talked to [Robert P.] Mayo, I don't
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ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
Lyndon B
- that he was up here to try to either
give instructio.ns,
or
assuming that he had al ready been. elected and
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denying· that, you know, Coke was on the defensive: ..
He had with him a young man, Bob Murphy, Robert Mu.rphy, who·
later