Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

Today the major fight of medicine and science is being directed against two other scourges, the toll of which is unthinkably great—cancer and infantile paralysis.

Context

Radio Address for the Fifth Birthday Ball for Crippled Children

01/28/1938

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