DEdRTMENT OF HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES

Public Health Service

Office of the Assistant Secretary
for Health

Washington DC 20201

August 6, 1981

MEMORANDUM
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TO:

Fred F. Fielding
The White House

FROM:    C. Everett Koop, M.D.
    Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health

SUBJECT: Personal Data Statement

There follow the answers to the questions posed to me in your memorandum
of August 5, 1981, numbered answer for numbered question.

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Until 1980, before I thought of government service, I was a member
of the Board of Directors of the Delta Western Oil Company (1979),
a wholly owned subsidiary of Delta Western Funds, Inc. (1974), it-
self a wholly owned subsidiary of Delta Western Company (1976).

Not organically related to the above, but with a similar Board of
Directors, there was Delta Funds, Inc. (founded in 1963).

The Surgical Clinic for Children is a partnership of pediatric
surgeons of which I was the senior partner.  This partnership it-
self was a partner in another partnership known as the Surgical
Associates of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

Light of Life, Inc.  A non-profit religious corporation.

University of Pennsylvania. I held two professorships--one in
pediatric surgery and one in pediatrics.

The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, I was its Surgeon-in-
Chief since 1948 until I left on February 28, 1981. In addition,
on two occasions, I held the post of President of the Executive
Committee of the Medical Staff,

The Evangelical Foundation.  A Philadelphia foundation of which I
was President for 25 years and on whose Board I currently sit.

MAP International.  A non-profit corporation dealing in medical
and famine relief as well as sanitation in the third world. I
resigned from the Board in 1981,

Eastern College.  For a period of four years, I was a member of
its Board of Trustees.


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o The Stoneybrook School,  I was a member of the Board of Trustees
for about 7 or 8 years, ending eight years ago.

o I held consultant posts at several Philadelphia institutions for

the acute and chronic care of children as well as several hospitals.

I have no such financial interests except that I do own stock in
several companies whose securities are traded on the New York Stock
Exchange, etc.

I have no debts.

In addition to my personal residence, I own two acres of land suitable
for building a home in Upper Deerfield Township, NJ, In addition, I
own a residence on Fairway Lane in New London, NH. This is occupied
by my son and his family.

The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, I have a pension due me
from that institution when I turn 65 as well as a deferred compensa-
tion plan into which I have made tax deductible payments for the past
six years.  Neither one of these sources of eventual income will have
anything added to the principal but interest.

The Surgical Associates of the Children? Hospital. My contract as
a partner is that for a period of one year following my resignation
(-2~28-81).  I will receive 75% of my accounts receivable as of that
date that will be collected during the ensuing year,

I enjoy no fringe benefits.

I have no plans for future employment.

I have never been convicted of any such violation.

I never have been nor am I at present under any kind of investigation
for violation of a criminal statute.

No tax lien or collection procedure has ever been instituted against me.

6n 1976, the Children's Hospital in Philadelphia received a grant
from the William Penn Foundation in order to provide mini-residencies
for periods of a month to practicing physicians who would like to come
back for a refresher course.  When the announcement of the Board was
made, several people were asked to comment in a newspaper article.
What I had to say, by telephone to a reporter, was not to the liking
of the Philadelphia County Medical Society.  Neither the professor of
pediatrics nor I had any opportunity to see what we were quoted as
saying.  My quote appeared:  "Rarely does a day go by that a patient
doesn't come in with a physician-caused problem." That is a true


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statement for someone in my position in the kind of a hospital in
which I worked but organized medicine doesn't like to hear it. I
was asked to appear before the Board of Censors and 1 refused to do
so because I felt the explanation I had made by mail was adequate. I
was not censored by thi`s group but I was reprimanded.

1 have never been involved in civil litagation except to appear as an
expert witness in medical/legal suits. On one occasion I, along with
other members of the Department of Surgery at the University of Pennsyl-
vania and the Department of Surgery at the Chtldren% Hospital of Phila-
delphia, was named in a grievance procedure to the Untversity by a dis-
gruntled member of the surgical staff. The grievance commission found
no personal fault with any individuals but did suggest that the Uni-
versity might make certain amends to the individual in question.

I have never run for political office.  My only connecti`on with politics
has been to make some modest contributions to specifi`c Republican
organizations or specific Republican candidates.

I' have been pu61icly fdentified as a person and by organizations to
which I have belonged with the controversTa1 subject of abortion. I
have been a member of the Board of Directors of the Chri'stian Action
Council, Americans United for Li`fe, the National Right-to-Life Com-
mittee (.I was a member one -month before resi`gnatfon)., and I have been
a member of the Board of Reference of the Ad Hoc Committee in Defense
of Li'fe.

1 have not as has been quoted i'n the press since my arrival in Washington
ever made statements opposing the ri'ghts of women, homosexuals, or any
other identifiable group.

I have written extensively, had press conferences, have been written
about, etc.  I never did this in an official governmental capacity
nor have 1 ever submitted anything to a government authority.

Although 1 don't consider the books I have written controversial, some
people do.  Those that are considered so are: The Right to Life, the
Right to Die; and Whatever Happened to the Human Race. Copies of both
are attached.

I have had no such associati'on.

I expect various pro-abortion groups, perhaps some feminist organiza-
tions, perhaps even a homosexual group, and the American Public Health
Association to oppose my nomination as Surgeon General.

The individual who brought the grievance procedure before the University
of Pennsylvania is, in my opinion, paranoid in his behavior.  He is not
satisfied with the University's response to his grievance.  His future
behavior is unpredictable,

Enclosures