Transcript of oral history, 1967.

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Transcript of oral history, 1967.

Interview of Adkins, undersecretary of health, education, and welfare during the Eisenhower administration, by John T. Mason, Jr., 1967, as part of the Eisenhower Administration Project sponsored by the Oral History Research Office, Columbia University.

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