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Letter from Lyndon B. Johnson to Edward D. Freis

Title:: Letter from Lyndon B. Johnson to Edward D. Freis
Creator:: Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973
Recipient:: Freis, Edward D.
Date:: 7 December 1971
Description:: In this letter, former President Johnson congratulated Freis for receiving the 1971 Albert Lasker Medical Research Award for clinical research for "his demonstration of the life-saving effectiveness of drugs in the treatment of moderate hypertension."
Rights:: Public Domain
Genre:: Letters (correspondence)
Subject:: Awards and Prizes
Format:: Text
Extent:: 1 pages
Language:: English
Legacy Source Citation:: Free Text. From the Freis family's personal collection.
Legacy ID:: XFBBBW
NLM ID:: 101584929X18
Profiles Collection:: The Edward D. Freis Papers
Shareable Link:: https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584929X18
Story Section:: The VA Cooperative Study and the Beginning of Routine Hypertension Screening, 1964-1980