Interview with Senator Don Nickles on domestic health care issues. Interview by Richard L. Reece

Senator Nickles (R-Okla) was interviewed in March in his Oklahoma City office on the 18th floor of the Liberty Bank Building. The interview was shortened by a late start and because the Senator was on his way to an editorial meeting of the Daily Oklahoman. Nonetheless, Senator Nickles, a young and energetic man in his early forties, was relaxed and in no apparent rush. Nickles, still the youngest Senator in Washington, has been a US Senator for 11 years. Because of the combination of youth and promise of long tenure, he is considered to be a rising power in the Senate. He is a conservative and a philosophical ally of medicine.