United States. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare

Reports, documents, correspondence, memoranda, and printed matter. A sizable number of the items are copies. In 1972 President Richard Nixon called for an "intensive study" and requested a plan for developing a "safe, fast, and efficient nationwide blood collection and distribution system."

Collection of speeches by HEW Secretaries, and Surgeon General Luther L. Terry. Copies of speeches delivered by Secretaries Anthony J. Celebrezze (1962-1965), John W. Gardner (1965-1967), Wilbur J. Cohen (1968-1969), Robert Q. Marston (1971-1972), Joseph A. Califano (1977-1979), and Surgeon General Terry (1961).

Correspondence, documents, reports, and printed matter. Papers on a variety of subjects relating to public health, health education, medical administration, federal health legislation, and civil defense.