US CONGRESSMAN PAUL ROGERS' PERSONAL SCRAPBOOK The National Cancer Act of 1971

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"CANCER BILL"
US CONGRESSMAN PAUL ROGERS' SCRAPBOOK
National Cancer Act of 1971
An original, personally compiled, scrapbook centered on the National Cancer Act of 1971 put together by US Congressman Paul Rogers (D Florida 1955-1979). Rogers was instrumental in the passage of the Act, considered to be the beginning of the war on cancer.
In hard-cover cloth post-binder with taped on typed title on front reading, "Cancer Bill". Congressman Roger's name is underlined on several of the clippings.
Measures about 16 x 11-3/4 inches; 58 pages, all but a few filled with clippings from magazines and newspapers. Includes laid-in sheet announcing the signing of the bill titled " The White House; Statement By The President" on Office of the White House Press Secretary letterhead dated December 23, 1971. The phrase "landmark legislation" in the last line by President Nixon has been underlined in pen, presumably by Congressman Rogers.
The whole in very good overall condition with a few loose but no apparent missing elements
The war on cancer began with the National Cancer Act of 1971, a United States federal law. The act was intended "to amend the Public Health Service Act so as to strengthen the National Cancer Institute in order to more effectively carry out the national effort against cancer". It was signed into law by President Nixon on December 23, 1971.
Health activist and philanthropist Mary Lasker was instrumental in persuading the United States Congress to pass the National Cancer Act. She and her husband Albert Lasker were strong supporters of medical research. They established the Lasker Foundation which awarded people for their research. In the year of 1943, Mary Lasker began changing the American Cancer Society to get more funding for research. Five years later she contributed to getting federal funding for the National Cancer Institute and the National Heart Institute. In 1946 the funding was around .8 million and had grown to over .4 billion by 1972. In addition to all of these accomplishments, Mary became the president of the Lasker Foundation due to the death of her husband in 1952. Lasker's devotion to medical research and experience in the field eventually contributed to the passing of the National Cancer Act.
The improved funding for cancer research has been quite beneficial over the last 40 years. In 1971, the number of survivors in the U.S. was 3 million and as of 2007 has increased to more than 12 million.
Biography:
Paul Grant Rogers
(June 4, 1921 – October 13, 2008) was an American lawyer and politician from the U.S. state of Florida. A Democrat, Rogers served in the U.S. House of Representatives as the member from Florida's 11th congressional district. He was chairman of Research America from 1996 to 2005.
He was elected as a Democrat to the 84th Congress in a special election to fill the vacancy caused by the death of his father, Dwight L. Rogers. Rogers served for and was reelected to the eleven succeeding congresses, for 24 years from January 4, 1955, to January 3, 1979. He chose not to run for reelection to the 96th Congress. While a member of the House,
Rogers served as chair of the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment from 1971 to 1979. Nicknamed "Mr. Health," he was a key representative behind the adoption of the National Cancer Act of 1971,
the Medical Device Amendments of 1976, the Health Maintenance Organization Act, the Emergency Medical Service Act, the Medicare-Medicaid Anti-Fraud and Abuse Amendments of 1977 and the Clean Air Act of 1970.
He was a signatory to the 1956 Southern Manifesto that opposed the desegregation of public schools ordered by the Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education.
Rogers was a resident of West Palm Beach, Florida and a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Hogan & Hartson. He was also active in the National Osteoporosis Foundation, Friends of the National Library of Medicine, and the National Leadership Coalition on Health Care (now the National Coalition on Health Care).
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