our handicapped workers have contributed immeasurably to the strength of our Nation through their productive capacity
John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “our handicapped workers have contributed immeasurably to the strength of our Nation through their productive capacity”
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Proclamation 3488—National Employ the Physically Handicapped Week, 1962
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