Remarks at a Republican Fund-raising Dinner
05/08/1973
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Above all, the process of a child's maturing is one of slow and steady growth that will not be speeded up for all our scientific knowledge.
Our commitment to the first 5 years of life will not show its full results during my administration, nor in that of my successor.
The effects of prevention are far better than the effects of cure.
Increasingly we know something about how this can be done.