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Harry Truman: I also invite the medical profession, the press, the radio, the motion-picture industry, and all organizations and…

On the recordMarch 24, 1948
I also invite the medical profession, the press, the radio, the motion-picture industry, and all organizations and individuals interested in a national program for the control of cancer by education and other cooperative means to unite during the month of April in a concerted effort to impress upon the people of the Nation the vital importance to their health and to the welfare of the Nation of a program for the control of cancer and the necessity for their cooperation in such a program.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

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Proclamation 2774—Cancer Control Month, 1948

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