To relieve the critical shortage of doctors and dentists--and this is a matter which should concern us all--and expand research, I urge action to aid medical and dental colleges and scholarships and to establish new National Institutes of Health.
Kennedy calls for action to address the shortage of healthcare professionals and enhance medical research.
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Our aim is not simply to be first on the moon, any more than Charles Lindbergh's real aim was to be the first to Paris.
But as an institution, it should have in the future, as it has had in the past since its inception, no stronger or more faithful member than the United States of America.
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Our instrument and our hope is the United Nations--and I see little merit in the impatience of those who would abandon this imperfect world instrument because they dislike our imperfect world.