LBJ and The Creation of Medicare - 50 Years Ago
My History Can Beat Up Your Politics
Bruce Carlson
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 28 December 2018
⏱️ 37 minutes
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| 0:36.8 | For God's face. Don't let dead cats lie on your porch Wilbur |
| 0:45.0 | Well President Johnson knew how to make a point. I mean it might not have sounded like the area policy discussion |
| 0:48.0 | one might imagine preceded the enactment of one of America's largest and arguably most cherished government programs. |
| 0:55.0 | But thanks to the recording of a crude dictaphone executive recording system, we know that this... |
| 1:01.0 | Don't let dead cashline your porch, is one of many things that President |
| 1:05.9 | Lyndon Johnson said in the short private meeting that probably launched Medicare as we |
| 1:10.8 | know it. The Wilbur that Johnson was talking to there was Wilbur Mills, |
| 1:17.0 | Congressman from Arkansas and the force behind the bill. |
| 1:21.0 | Sam Rayburn used to always say that. |
| 1:24.6 | Don't let dead cats are on your porch. |
| 1:28.6 | This March 1965 Oval Office discussion with Mills, who is also the House Ways and Means Committee Chairman, |
| 1:34.5 | in regard to his Medicare bill, was recorded for history, though not all the participants |
| 1:40.3 | knew it. |
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