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Dr Ginzberg repts Columbia survey shows voluntary hosps in 'tolerably decent position'; holds state subsidies unnecessary; urges $22.8-million yrly rise in state budget; other recommendations
US Sup Ct Assoc Justice Jackson scores practice, case of US Patent Office against V M Dorsey
Gives dinner for Shah of Iran
Assembly, 48-1, defers decision on area until '50 pending comm inquiry
1949Richard Carmona, American physician and politician, Surgeon General of the United States[†]
Richard Henry Carmona is an American physician, nurse, police officer, public health administrator, and politician. He was a vice admiral in the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps and served as the seventeenth Surgeon General of the United States. Appointed by President George W. Bush in 2002, Carmona left office at the end of July 2006 upon the expiration of his term. After leaving office, Carmona was highly critical of the Bush administration for suppressing scientific findings which conflicted with the administration's ideological agenda.