James C. Cain; President Johnson’s Doctor
James C. Cain, 78, Lyndon B. Johnson’s personal physician, who attended the President during his gallbladder surgery in 1965. He was a specialist in internal medicine at the Mayo Clinic for 30 years before his retirement in 1978. Johnson appointed Cain chairman of the National Advisory Committee on Selective Service in 1965, a position he held until 1968. In Rochester, Minn., on Feb. 1 of cancer.
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