“We can say with some assurance that, although children may be the victims of fate, they will not be the victims of our neglect.”

—  John F. Kennedy

"Remarks upon signing the Maternal and Child Health and Mental Retardation Planning Bill (434)" (24 October 1963)]
1963

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35th president of the United States of America 1917–1963

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