So I appreciate your coming here, and I think it is appropriate that this trip have a send-off here from the White House and the Capital, because you are going not only on your own business, but on the Nation's business.
Remarks to Members of the Illinois Trade Mission to Europe.
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Today, we cannot even identify the cause of retardation in 75 percent of the cases.
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