Reminiscences of Ernest B. Howard : oral history, 1967

Biographical Note

Physician, medical administrator

Scope and Contents

American Medical Association since 1948; mission to Peru, 1946-1948; American Medical Association positions on; national health, public health insurance program; Congressional hearings; involvement in political campaigns; disability legislation; Forand bill; impact of President Kennedy's assassination; Kerr-Mills bill; votes on health bills; American Medical Association support from American Farm Bureau, Blue Shield; Madison Square Garden rally; civil rights and Medicare; analysis of senators' positions on health legislation; 1964 campaign

Subjects

• American Medical Association.
• Corning, Peter A., 1935- interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Disability insurance.
• Health insurance.
• Howard, Ernest B., 1910-1993--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Medicare.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Physicians--Interviews.
• United States--Politics and government--1945-1989.