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...President Harry S. Truman's Federal Security Administrator, Oscar Ewing, with his boss's backing, declared that the U.S. must "provide that all people shall have access to such health and medical services as they require through a system of insurance covering the entire population." The plan was to be financed by payroll taxes rising to 4%; it would be administered by the states with the Federal Government serving only as the collecting and disbursing agent; patients would have free choice of doctor, and doctors would have the right to reject patients; doctors could join the plan...
...senior Faculty members lobbying Friday in Washington include Dean May: Edwin O. Reischauer, University Professor and former U.S. ambassador to Japan: Richard E. Neustadt, professor of Government, who was an aide to President Truman: George B. Kistiakowsky. Abbott and James Lawrence Professor of Chemistry, who was science advisor to President Eisenhower: Francis M. Bator, professor of Political Economy, who was an advisor to President Johnson; Seymour Martin Lipset, professor of Government and Social Relations; and William M. Capron, lecturer on Political Economy and former assistant Director of the Budget...
...dilatory 91st Congress stands a good chance of surpassing Harry Truman's "do nothing" 80th as a model of legislative nonactivity. Faced with the possibility of several nation-crippling strikes, however, both House and Senate last week proved that they could overcome inertia and act with dispatch. While an illegal strike by "sick" air controllers entered its third week and wildcatting Teamsters threatened chaos on the highways, Congress moved quickly to head off further trouble with the railroad and postal unions...
Though the Supreme Court decision in the Government's 1952 seizure of the steel industry affirms the broad powers of both the President and Congress to deal with strikes in private industries that affect the public welfare, the law is less clear concerning Government employees. President Truman's 1946 plan to draft striking railroad workers was never tested; the strikers went back to work before Congress could act. The President needs no authority but his own to call out either the National Guard or the Army. It is doubtful, however, if troops would be very effective. Though the Army...
...display at the Hallmark Gallery in New York includes a "Phooey on Dewey" button, a collection of walking sticks, and the 1901 Independence, Mo., high school yearbook showing Harry and Bess in their caps and gowns. A saltier item among the souvenirs on loan from the Harry S. Truman Library is the ex-President's reply to a tongue-in-cheek suggestion from a U.S. Senator that he appoint the late John L. Lewis Ambassador to Russia. The mine workers' boss, reasoned Truman's correspondent, had a "more formidable" look than Stalin and could "roar louder" than...