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Richard Nixon: If we can now achieve that great goal, we will have lifted from the human family forever the pain, the suffering and the…

On the recordMarch 28, 1971
If we can now achieve that great goal, we will have lifted from the human family forever the pain, the suffering and the unbearable fear of that most dreaded of all diseases.
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Richard Nixon
Republican · California

Editor's note · Context

Proclamation 4039—Cancer Control Month, 1971

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