Board of Directors Meeting, September 26, 1952 Page 4
Dr. Harry Thompson stated that Dr. Thomas H. Bate, President of the Arizona Medical Association, had asked him to say that there had been a meeting at Salt Lake City on the 15th or 16th of September of representatives of the AMA to discuss whom to vote for President, and that it was the feeling of the AMA that each Society might well have a political party apart from sponsorship of their own Society to bring the word that Eisenhower seems to be the man who actually is against socialized medicine. Both candidates have been interviewed, and the consensus of opinion is that Eisenhower would be the man for organized medicine, and Dr. Bate had thought it would be fitting for the President of this Society to appoint a committee to spread the word among the doctors. Dr. Thompson said he thought it an imposition, if one is a good Democrat, to be asked to vote for Eisenhower, but that what all doctors are interested in is the future of medicine.
Dr. Thompson moved that the President appoint a committee to investigate this problem. Motion seconded by Dr. Hayden and carried.
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President Secretary-Treasurer
Minutes of the Pima County Medical Society 1904-1954
