We, as a nation, have neglected too long the mentally ill and the mentally retarded.
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Remarks on Proposed Measures To Combat Mental Illness and Mental Retardation.
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It gives them a greater security, a greater participation in the wellbeing of this country.
I hope private industry and labor will also realize that those who are handicapped frequently are more than compensated by their desire to be useful and to play a gainful role.
And to weaken and water down the pending program, to confuse and confine its flexibility with rigid restrictions and rejections, will not only harm our economy, it will hamper our security.
Never has there been any question in my mind, President Eisenhower said recently, as to the necessity of a program of economic and military aid to keep the free nations of the world from being overrun by the Communists.





