Excerpt: Joseph A. Califano, Jr. Reveals How LBJ Convinced Head of the AMA to Support Medicare

President Johnson's top domestic advisor, Joseph A. Califano, Jr., reveals how the president convinced the head of the American Medical Association to support Medicare. Anecdote told during a Friends of the LBJ Library event on Thursday, March 26, 2015 at the LBJ Presidential Library.
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