1. White House announcement of Mary Lasker being awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom

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2. Verbatim Remarks, National Advisory Heart Council, June 14-16, 1954

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3. The Politics of Cancer

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4. Speech from Lister Hill (in absentia) honoring Mary Lasker at a tribute dinner in her honor

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5. Six suggested research activities to be initiated or expanded at the National Cancer Institute with additional funding

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6. Showdown Set Tuesday on Heart-Drug Study

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7. Press release on Mary Lasker's appointment to the National Advisory Cancer Council

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8. Postcard from Salvador Dali to Mary Lasker

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9. Need for a Commission on the Conquest of Cancer as a National Goal by 1976

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10. Mr. Nixon: You Can Cure Cancer

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11. Memorandum to Edward Flynn [asking him to take a leadership role in demanding more research and government funds for battling heart disease, cancer, and mental health disease]

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12. Memorandum on heart legislation

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13. Memorandum from Mike Gorman

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14. Memorandum from Hubert H. Humphrey to Mary Lasker

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15. Members of the National Advisory Heart Council

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16. Mary Woodard Lasker: First Lady of Medical Research

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17. Mary Lasker, Lady Bird Johnson, and Michael DeBakey at the 1983 Lasker Medical Research Awards luncheon

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18. Mary Lasker with two people in a garden

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19. Mary Lasker with journalism award winner

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20. Mary Lasker with her horses

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