It came from Dave Packard. He was the principal proponent of it. He felt we were having trouble getting physicians in the military service forces, and that we had these major research hospitals and outstanding hospitals, Walter Reed and Bethesda, and we needed our own medical school, which we did get.
Discussing the establishment of a medical school for the military.
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