01/11/1966
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"Research and better means of applying the knowledge of the laboratories to the lives of our people can materially lessen the scourge of blindness."
"Blindness can be prevented."
"Every fourth schoolchild requires eye care."
"I call upon doctors, and private and public agencies, to press on with their work of saving, for us and for our children, the incomparable blessing of sight."