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Funigiello,
Chronic Politics
, 68. The new disability enactments (Public Law 149; Public Law 174; Public Law 356; Public Law 357; Public Law 427—all passed by the Eighty-Second Congress) are discussed in
Administrator of Veterans Affairs, Annual Report, 1952
, 66.
    16 . Theda Skocpol,
Protecting Soldiers and Mothers: The Political Origins of Social Policy in the United States
(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press,1982); and Beth Linker,
War’s Waste: Rehabilitation in World War I America
(Chicago: University of Chicago, 2011).
    17 . For “temporarily won the battle …,” see “Private Medicine Victory seen in GOP Success,”
Los Angeles Times
, December 15, 1952, 9; for “From such dreams …,” see “Address at the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Dinner, New York City, October 21, 1954,”
Public Papers: Eisenhower
, 936.
    18 . “Citation Accompanying Medal of Honor Awarded to Private First Class Alford L. McLaughlin—August 18, 1953,”
Public Papers of the Presidents: Dwight D. Eisenhower
(Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, 1953): 174; see also David Gerber, “Heroes and Misfits: The Troubled Social Reintegration of Disabled Veterans in ‘The Best Years of Our Lives,’”
American Quarterly
46 (December 1994): 545–74.
    19 . Eisenhower, State of the Union address, 1953, 33.
    20 . For “Holders of the Purple Heart …,” see The Military Order of the Purple Heart, Inc. to the Bradley Commission, May 27, 1955, Bradley Commission Papers, box 9, folder: Indexed Replies Copy 1 (2); for “compensation for those …,” see Disabled American Veterans letter to Bradley Commission, May 19, 1955, Bradley Commission Papers, box 9, folder: Indexed Replies Copy 1 (2).
    21 . For “disgusting …,” see “VFW Chief Hits Medical Group,”
Los Angeles Times
, February 26, 1954, 5; see also “AMA Head Calls VA Free Enterprise Threat,”
Los Angeles Times
, October 26, 1953, 34; Lisa McGirr,
Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right
(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001), 67; for “continued federal encroachment …,” see Nate Haseltine, “AMA Claims Legion Aids Socialism,”
Washington Post
, August 31, 1954, 2; for “cash-conscious …,” see “American Legion Attacks AMA on Free Care Stand,”
Los Angeles Times
, September 2, 1954, 18; for “lay off …,” see “AMA Is Assailed by VFW Leader,”
Washington Post
, March 16, 1954,13; see also Nate Haseltine, “AMA Claims Legion Aids Socialism,”
Washington Post
, August 31, 1954, 2; “Non-Service Veterans Care Under Attack,”
Los Angeles Times
, December 29, 1955, 12.
    22 . “Veto of Bill for the Relief of Fred P. Hines. July 20, 1953,”
Public Papers: Eisenhower
(1953), 498.
    23 . Letter from Eisenhower to General Omar N. Bradley, Chairman, President’s Commission on Veterans’ Pensions, Concerning a Study of Veterans’ Benefits, March 5, 1955, www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=10429 .
    24 . For proposed legislation, see “Social Security Extension Plan Rapped by AMA,”
Los Angeles Times
, July 16, 1955, 4; “AMA Blasts Security Bill for Disabled,”
Washington Post
, July 23, 1955, 24; “Non-Service Veterans Care under Attack,”
Los Angeles Times
, December 29, 1955, 12.
    25 . Meeting with John Gunther, February 7, 1950, Miller Center, Scripps Archive, University of Virginia, http://millercenter.org/scripps/archive/presidentialrecordings/eisenhower#presidential .
    26 . McGirr,
Suburban Warriors
.
    27 . “Thanks to Penicillin … He Will Come Home,” Henley Laboratories Inc. advertisement,
Life
, August 14, 1944; for studies on drug production in World War II and postwar drug cultures, see Nicholas Rasmussen,
On Speed: The Many Lives of Amphetamines
(New York: NYU Press, 2008); and David Herzberg,
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