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[[image - black & white photograph of a meeting with President Nixon]] On August 5, 1970 during the course of the Diamond Jubilee Convention of the National Medical Association in Atlanta, a group of Association officials conferred with President Nixon on pressing problems. From left, Hon. Elliott Richardson, secretary of HEW; Hon. Robert Finch, White House counsellor; Dr. Andrew Thomas, secretary, NMA House of Delegates; Dr. John A. Kenney, Chairman, NMA Committee on Legislation; Dr. James Whittico, past president, NMA (1969); Dr. Julius W. Hill, immediate past president, NMA; President Nixon; Dr. Emerson C. Walden, president-elect, NMA; President Nixon; Dr. Dr. Emerson C. Walden, president-elect, NMA and past NMA Board Chairman; Loy Kirkpatrick, associate counsel, NMA; Dr. Charles C. Bookert, former speaker of NMA House of Delegates and NMA Board Trustee; and Robert J. Brown, White House aide.