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mahatmakanejeeves

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Tue Jun 23, 2020, 10:55 AM Jun 2020

June 22, 1951: Truman lays cornerstone for new center at National Insttutes of Health

Truman lays cornerstone for new center at National Insttutes of Health {June 22,} 1951, saying, "Modern medicine must find ways of detecting...diseases in their early stages and of stopping their destructive force….There could be no more useful expenditure of the taxpayers' funds”:

In a tan suit, no less..


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