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Thursday, July 19, 2007

Surgeons General (Scroll down: Frank Powers' letter)

Frank Powers doesn't have it quite right (Letters, Boston Globe, July 13th. 2007, A14).

He is correct that both the Reagan and Clinton administrations had health issues they didn't want talked about (AIDS and needle exchange respectively).

However, only the Bush administration appointed a surgeon general who knuckled under to political pressures. Those in the Reagan and Clinton administrations spoke out forcibly on the issues.

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