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    "ocrText": "REMARKS*\nATTACHMENT D\nBy\nOveta Culp Hobby\nSecretary of Health, Education, and Welfare\nThank you. Ladies and gentlemen, on behalf of the President and of\nall the people whom your government serves, I welcome you to this meeting\nand thank you for coming here today.\nOur mission is an important one, and although the problem which we\nhope to help solve is exceedingly complex, our role can be stated very\nsimply. We are gathered here at the request of the President to seek out\nand consider all the available data with respect to the availability of the\nSalk vaccine. This technical information is essential to the report the\nPresident has directed that I make to him.\nThe ultimate purpose all of us have, of course, is to confer the\ngreatest good on the greatest number of people to whom polio presents the\ngreatest threat.\nCOUI\nThe announcement of the successful tests of the vaccine was made\non April 12, and on April 14 the President directed his request for a study.\nIn the brief space of the days that have passed, signs of considerable.con\nfusion, misunderstanding and anxiety exist concerning the availability,\nthe distribution of the new vaccine. I am sure all of us would agree to\nthat extent that all of us can contribute to minimizing the confusion we\nwill be performing a public service, and an important public service.\nRepresented here today are the medical and public health profes-\nsions, the pharmaceutical and drug industries and many other groups con-\ncerned with the problem.\nI am happy to welcome all of you. I know you will understand when I\nextend a particularly warm welcome to the National Foundation for Infantile\n*At Conference on Salk Vaccine, April 22, 1955"
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