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REAGAN VS. SOCIALIZED MEDICINE

Dallas blogger John Lanius has posted a fascinating artifact from 1961, "a wonderfully-preserved example of pre-Internet, multimedia political opinion, produced and distributed by the American Medical Association and deployed via the 'Women's Auxiliary' (not the Spouse's Auxiliary): Ronald Reagan Speaks Out Against Socialized Medicine." John reproduces not only the text of the accompanying direct mail (to his grandmother, a doctor's wife) but photos of the package and MP3s of the (vinyl) record of Reagan speaking on the topic.

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