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Profemor R.8. 8aahary
72 `Ibsor $trmt
Kempsey, m 2440
Au8tralia

?irst of all, gratings of this marvelom seamon to you and Win. Eotty and
I are very happy for you both.

My appointment runs until ?fcmmber 17, 1973.  ?%om &to trted 80 hard to
keep mt out of offiae got mt an extra pearl  I would larrs to be reappointed
at that tims and at loa*t stay in a8 long as the Pre*ibant does until the
enU of 1968,  I know I will never retire and I can't think of a job in
which I uottld be axe pmduutive and happy.

YQU will ba fntersstd to knm that all of wr efforts about Baby DOB and
the regulations that uere mitten, baaed upam Civil Rights kqislatim,
were eventually strtxzk dam fn the uourts i3nd u6i were for a tine without
protecWon for these infattt8.  `ibsn, Uue to two year8 of edua8tion in the
prerrr uhethar they wanted it or not, Cmgrem reacted. First, in the
Cmgreu and than in the knate, bills were drawn up in the tom of
amendments to the new Child Abu80 Legi81aticmr uhiah put the responribility
for tmnitoring and enforument not cm the ?Weral Government, but on tha
individual utater.

After a txmtermce betwen both Bouses of Congrls88, a oarpromise uas
reachM ant! the Prerrident signed the bill into law on October 9th, which
called for the writing af tegulationu on &ffniticm8 of handiaappeU
newbfarn8, a8 wll aa a mu definition to be included on Child Abuse,
namly, "the wfthholding of tiic?ally benefioial treatment (inaluUing
nutrition, hydration, and meUiaation) Iran handicapped newbotn8g.   I was
the in-hou8a e%pert on the languags and ths regulations having to do with
the8e ammdments and war given the complete rwponsibility for writing the
guidelitn8 fox infant oare rwimt camittee8 Ba be s8tablirhed voluntarily
in h08pitalS to get a b8ttw fOtU8i in whfah them thing8 might be di8oUSSed
and, thbtefore, not railroaded thraogh without some campetent understanding
and compausiona~ people having an influetme.  They now go out for mment
and will be rewritten and then will tmcmm law.  I will smd you a copy to
rkim under mtparate aover.
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On q return trip from Xttrael r&a&Wy, I stopp&l in HanchesY'sr and gave an
Ronor Leature on Pdiatrfatt and than 8at on a panel in reference to lkby
Doe ta aelebrate the 1SOth Annivetrsary of the Wanahwter Wiaal Surety.
I wa8 up again8t people of total: ly opposite cmtviations, but did have the

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6atirf66ticm of having a ntmbW of -16 6ay 8uah things to 6~4 ai)t  gYou
ate nothing like yuu are reptesantd in the pre68* or "1'1 60 glad to hear
the truth about Baby DOS".  I took off, ammg other thinglr after Miahael
OWcmnell who h6U wrfttm rub\ a biasad, prejudfmtd and totally inaccurate
~I~KHB in the Brfti8h RMical Jourrml.

I don*thear muah frommy wlropemn aollwgues,but& kncwthat MiohQl
cU~8ortne 18 we11 md that Fetter Rfakbn, amsrently, t8 not. Pet6r ia
cwarpletely ratir6U and Micthella ID mwt diroauragdl about the effeat of
cm6uunf66 an th6 practicer of mediuine in ?rancm.

Batty sand8 hr 1000 6nd will write in the l&w Year.

8irmrely yours,

C. lberett Kemp, M.D.
Surg6on Osneral

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