I, John F. Kennedy, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim the week beginning March 17, 1963, as National Poison Prev...
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I am recommending a new, 5-year program of assistance to States and local health departments to develop comprehensive maternity and child he...
I am hopeful that beginning today this country will move with a great national effort in this field so vital to the welfare of our citizens.
Mental retardation ranks with mental health as a major health, social, and economic problem in this country.
These two afflictions have been long neglected.
We, as a nation, have neglected too long the mentally ill and the mentally retarded.
If we launch a broad, new mental health program now, it will be possible within a decade or two to reduce the number of patients now under c...
I HAVE sent to the Congress today a series of proposals to help fight mental illness and mental retardation.
Our chief aim is to get people out of State custodial institutions and back into their communities and homes, without hardship or danger.
By virtue of the authority vested in me by section 55(a) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1939, as amended (53 Stat, 29, 54 Stat. 1008; 26 U....
This is an excellent statement of cooperation representing a milestone in conservation progress.
We are anxious to make sure that every American has a chance to live as he chooses and to bring up his family the way he wants.
I WANT to express great pleasure in having Governor Lawrence come with this administration as Chairman of the President's Committee on Equal...
This achievement in settling major jurisdictional issues between the two Departments, in outlining the principles of cooperation that will g...
I was greatly pleased by your joint letter describing the new conservation policy your Departments are adopting to help implement our outdoo...
I know that there have been many vexing problems over the years in relationships between the Departments of Agriculture and Interior but you...
This is a most important assignment which requires a good deal of experience, commitment, and administrative skill.