HARDING INITIATES SURVEY ON PUBLIC HEALTH, EDUCATION & WELFARE
Washington, D.C. (JFK+50) On March 9, 1921, President Warren G. Harding "entrusted" his personal friend and physician, Dr. Charles E. Sawyer* of Marion, Ohio, with conducting "one of the most important surveys" leading to the creation of a Department of Education and Public Welfare.
In a statement issued by the White House...
"President Harding is convinced that...public health, education and social justice...are so intimately related and vital...that he (will) begin at once a careful survey of all matters pertaining to these subjects."
*Dr. Charles Elmer Sawyer (1860-1924) was born in Wyandot, Ohio & graduated from Cleveland Homeopathic Hospital College. He became the personal physician of Warren & Florence Harding.
CES was given the rank of Brigadier General in the Army Medical Corps by President Harding & reportedly misdiagnosed the President's coronary condition which led to his death in 1923.
SOURCE
"Harding Picks Dr. Sawyer For Welfare Task," The Washington Herald, March 10, 1921, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/
