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Article: KOOP'S AURA HAS EARNED HIM A HEALTHY RESPECT

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July 31, 1988
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Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, who led a protracted 1981 battle to block Dr. C. Everett Koop's confirmation as the US surgeon general, needs no prompting nowadays to admit his error.

"I'd say my vote against Chick Koop was a mistake," Kennedy volunteered on Friday, even allowing that a President Dukakis "wouldn't make a mistake in keeping him on."

Back in 1981, Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-Cal.), the liberal chairman of the House subcommittee on health and the environment, called Koop "a man of tremendous intolerance" because of his personal antiabortion crusade. "Dr. Koop scares me," Waxman had declared.

Last week, Waxman said the 71-year-old Koop "has been the model of what we want a surgeon ...

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