John Kennedy actually said...

We have the knowledge and the capacity to relieve great suffering and to rehabilitate untold numbers of our fellow citizens affected with mental disabilities.

Context

Letter to the President, Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia, on Mental Illness and Mental Retardation.

02/14/1963

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