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John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “Mental retardation ranks with mental health as a major health, social, and economic problem in this country.”

On the recordFebruary 4, 1963
Mental retardation ranks with mental health as a major health, social, and economic problem in this country.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Remarks on Proposed Measures To Combat Mental Illness and Mental Retardation.

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