The Federal Government can help with information and research, and toward the creation of administrative agencies and the funds to assist in support of them, but they rest primarily with States and counties, cooperating often with private agencies and dealing with the problem at close range and in the light of local conditions.
Letter to Governor Harry G. Leslie About the Indiana Conference on Child Health and Protection.
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These policies and measures will hold our hard-won American system of ordered liberty and government.
There is little need for me to express the gratitude which I know the whole country holds for this great service now added to a life of long devotion to public welfare.
I am indeed personally under great obligation to you for your cooperation and great accomplishments in many of our most important governmental problems of the past three years.
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