Word: sickness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sick to death of the way the press treats Billy Carter [June 5]. Who cares what kind of wedding Billy Carter throws for his daughter? Why shouldn't he be able to handle it any way that will make his daughter and his family happy? Billy Carter is not, I repeat, not the President; he is Billy Carter. There are lots of Billy Carters in the U.S. So why do you continue to put him down for living his life the way he chooses...
...having the most impact on American life today, it would not be church or school, private corporation or political party. It would be the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare. The agency provides funds, advice and regulations for birth, infancy, upbringing, schooling and old age, for the sick and disabled, the handicapped and the gifted, the divorced and the depressed, the sex discriminator and the sex offender, for those who are pregnant and those who are sterile. Whatever the ailment or anxiety, the department will have some remedy among its 400 programs, a range of activities that increases...
...trying to make the department a symbol of the manageability of government. I want to deliver the services that have been set up to the people who need them. I think the days are over when we could say it's wonderful we are helping children, older people, sick people; therefore give us all the money in the world without regard to how efficiently we spend it. There are lots of hard judgments that have to be made...
John Knowles, M.D., president of the Rockefeller Foundation, on staying well: "Over 99% of us are born healthy and made sick as a result of personal misbehavior and environmental conditions...
...middle of the school year, Maguire says he expects next year to have most of the budget available in September and fewer windfalls of new funds later in the year. He says, "This allows us to start with a healthy program in the fall, instead of a sick one which we have to try to make healthy...