John Kennedy actually said...

We have left behind prejudice, superstition and ignorance which since the dawn of time distorted our thinking about the mentally retarded.

Letter to Dr. Stafford L. Warren at the Opening of the White House Conference on Mental Retardation

09/18/1963

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