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Richard Nixon: “But beyond any question, the effort is worth making: for at the present rate of occurrence, more than 4 million of the…”

On the recordNovember 15, 1971
But beyond any question, the effort is worth making: for at the present rate of occurrence, more than 4 million of the 142 million children whom demographers estimate will be born in America between now and the year 2000 would grow up retarded.
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Richard Nixon
Republican · California

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Statement About Mental Retardation

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