I, John F. Kennedy, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim the week beginning March 17, 1963, as National Poison Prevention Week.
We, as a nation, have neglected too long the mentally ill and the mentally retarded.
Our chief aim is to get people out of State custodial institutions and back into their communities and homes, without ha...
I am recommending a new, 5-year program of assistance to States and local health departments to develop comprehensive ma...
New medical, scientific, and social tools and insights are now available.
If we launch a broad, new mental health program now, it will be possible within a decade or two to reduce the number of ...
Mental retardation ranks with mental health as a major health, social, and economic problem in this country.
I am hopeful that beginning today this country will move with a great national effort in this field so vital to the welf...
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.
By virtue of the authority vested in me by section 55(a) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1939, as amended (53 Stat, 29, ...