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become moot with the impending advent of the new effective vaccines for poliomyelitis
toward which he had made a major contribution.

Notes – Hail to the Chief

1. A) Web site of The American Public Health Association:
   http://www.apha.org/about/. B) Web site of the Sedgwick Medal:
   http://www.apha.org/sections/awards/05awards.sedgwick.htm.


2. Web site of the National Academy of Sciences: http://www.nasonline.org.


3. See reference No. 59 of this chapter.


4. Other National Institutes of Health Sedgwick Award recipients listed by the
   National Library of Medicine.


5. The September 20, 1941 letter from Thomas Parran was among Armstrong’s
   personal papers.


6. The September 23, 1941 reply letter was among Armstrong’s personal papers.


7. Parran’s presentation remarks were among Armstrong’s personal papers; quoted
   in the American Public Health Association News 3: 1331-1332, December 1941.


8. A) The New York Times October 14, 17, 1941.
   B) The Washington Post October 15, 19, 1941.
   C) The Charlotte Observer October 20, 1941. Quoted: “I have only been doing
   my day’s work.”


9. Among Armstrong’s personal papers.