Statement by the President on Announcing Plans for the White House Conference on Health.
WE MUST constantly protect and improve the health of our people. The time has come to call upon our best scientific and administrative talents to help chart the future in this critical area. I hope that this Conference will formulate guidelines for developing creative programs that will bring better health to every American. The mandate of this Conference will not stop at the water's edge. I will call upon it to help develop international goals in the field of health.
Note: The statement was read by Bill D. Moyers, Special Assistant to the President, at his news conference at Austin, Tex., at 4 p.m. on Friday, August 13, 1965. It was not made public in the form of a White House press release.
In making the announcement Mr. Moyers added that the Conference would be held November 30 -- December 1, 1965. He stated that Dr. George W. Beadle, President of the University of Chicago, would serve as Chairman, and that Boisfeuillet Jones, President of the Woodruff Foundation of Atlanta and former Special Assistant to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, would serve as Executive Vice Chairman.
Lyndon B. Johnson, Statement by the President on Announcing Plans for the White House Conference on Health. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/241025