The additional general fund financing in fiscal year 1964, for which legislative authority will be needed, will provide the District with the funds necessary to enable it to qualify for and participate in these programs.
Special Message to the Congress on the District of Columbia Budget.
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I hope that we will define handicapped so that we do make a major effort on all those who are handicapped.
Let us therefore proclaim our gratitude to Providence for manifold blessings--let us be humbly thankful for inherited ideals--and let us resolve to share those blessings and those ideals with our fellow human beings throughout the world.
But there are other troubles besetting the human family. Many of its members live in poverty and misery and despair.
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