The President's News Conference
06/13/1962
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I HAVE sent to the Congress today a series of proposals to help fight mental illness and mental retardation.
These two afflictions have been long neglected.
We, as a nation, have neglected too long the mentally ill and the mentally retarded.
By virtue of the authority vested in me by section 55(a) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1939, as amended (53 Stat, 29, 54 Stat. 1008; 26 U....