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mahatmakanejeeves

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Fri Jun 23, 2023, 01:11 PM Jun 2023

On June 22, 1951, Harry Truman laid the cornerstone for a new center at the NIH.

Truman lays cornerstone for new center at National Insttutes of Health today 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”:



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