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[Dignitaries on the speaker's platform during the groundbreaking ceremony of the new National Library of Medicine building]
[Dignitaries on the speaker's platform during the groundbreaking ceremony of the new National Library of Medicine building]
Image caption on page 67 of the book US National Library of Medicine: "Dignitaries who gathered on the speaker's platform during the groundbreaking ceremony of the new National Library of Medicine building, June 12, 1959, included, from left: Arthur S. Flemming, Secretary, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare; Michael E. DeBakey, MD; Leroy E. Burney, MD, Surgeon General; Champ Lyons, Chairman of the library's Board of Regents; Melvin R. Laird, Congressman from Wisconsin."
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