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LEONARD WOODCOCK
Chairman

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MRS. ALBERT D. LASKER MICHAEL E. DeBAKEY, M.D. MAX W. FINE
           Vice Chairmen Executive Director

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The Committee of Onchundred

I. W. Abel
Rev. Ralph D. Abernathy
Arthur Altmeyer
William S. Apple, Ph.D.
Guillermo Arbona, M.D.
George Baehr, M.D.
Rabbi Leonord Beerman
Mrs. William McC. Blair, Jr.
Peter Bommarito
Thomas E. Boyle
Lester Breslow, M.D.
James Brindle
Mrs. Mary I. Bunting
H. Robert Cathcart
Martin Cherkosky, M.D.
John Sherman Cooper
William S. Cowles. Jr.
Nelson H. Cruikshank
Tony Dechant
Paul Douglas
Stanley Dreyer
Robert H. Ebert, M.D.
William N. Enes
Joseph T. English, M.D.
Bruce W. Everist, M.D.
I S. Folk, Ph.D.
Sidney Farber, M.D.
Frank E. Fitzsimmons
Emerson Foate
David French, M.D.
Rudolph H. Friedrich, D.D.S.
Frank Furstenberg, M.D.
John Kenneth Galbraith
The Most Rev. Roymond J. Gallagher
General James M. Govin
H. Jack Geiger, M.D.
Harold Gibbons
Melvin A. Glasser
Arthur J. Goldberg
Mike Gorman
Patrick E. Gorman
A. F. Grospiron
William Haber
the Right Rev. Donald H. V. Hallock
Zenon C. R. Hansen
Mrs. Fred R. Harris
James G. Haughton, M.D.
Hubert Hemsley, M.D.
John Holloman, Jr., M.D.
Joseph Kellman
Edward M. Kennedy
Clark Kerr
Lambert King
Mrs. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Mathilde Krim, Ph D.
Russel V. Lee, M.D.
Francis McCloskey
Mrs. Jean MacVicar, R.N.
E. F. Marriner, M.D.
E. G. Marshall
Chorles H. Mayo II, M.D.
Emil Mazey
George R. Metcalf
David Miller
Einar 0. Mohn
Fitzhugh Mullon, M.D.
Harold F. Newman, M.D.
Robert Partridge
Robert 1. Popper
Alex Radin
Christian N. Ramsey, Jr., M.D.
Ronald F. Roley
Howard Rome, M.D.
Alan Sagner
Terry Sanford
Ernest Saward, M.D.
William 8. Saxbe
Max H. Schoen, D.D.S., M.P.H.
Charles I. Schattland
David Selden
John Siegenthaler
Eugene A. Stead, Jr., M.D.
Carl 6. Stokes
Gerald Teplitz, 6.5, D.O.
Myron Wegman, M.D.
Jacqueline Wexler
Roy Wilkins
T. G. G. Wilson, Ph.D., M.D.
Jerry Wurf
Ralph W. Yarborough
Alonzo Yerby, M.D.

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July 9, 1971

Mrs. Mary Lasker
Albert & Mary Lasker Found.
29 Beekman Place
New York, New York 10022

Dear Mary:

We have developed a really sensational idea

for the Fall: a Rally for Health. It will be
held in Washington, at the Kennedy Center, if
available. We will seek the participation of show
business personalities such as Alan King, Paul Newman,
Mike Nichols, Flip Wilson, Danny Kaye (a friend of
yours, I know) and many others. Speakers will include
Muskie, Kennedy, Humphrey, Hughes, Bayh (I am
convinced the Democratic National Committee has thus
far failed to evaluate properly the importance of
the health issue; it touches every life and almost
everyone you talk with has problems with the system).
The Rally will place the health issue above politics.
We will launch a March of Dimes-like "Campaign for
Health Security.I1 It will also produce income Co
help us achieve the goal.

Mike Gorman sheres my enthusiasm for this idea.

He suggested I talk with you dipectly about asking
you to support the development of this project.
Unless we begin now the opportunity will be postponed
and perhaps even pass.  We beliege we can do all
the spadework and bring the show right up to curtain,
for $10,000. We believe the Rally will not only
give our efforts high national exposure, and give the
whole campaign a lift to new credibility, but that
it will also produce as much as $65,000 net for our
skimpy budget

Mrs. Mary Lasker 2 July 9, 1971

I await your early, and I hope favorable, reaction.

Sincerely,

Max W. Fine
Executive Director