The President's News Conference
04/02/1963
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We have left behind prejudice, superstition and ignorance which since the dawn of time distorted our thinking about the mentally retarded.
There can be no greater evidence of American vitality, intelligence and humanitarian tradition.
Our present system of care might better be called our system of 'don't care'.
Society for too long has closed the door against the mentally retarded.