In 1940, President Franklin Roosevelt, a polio victim who understoodwell the suffering and devastation caused by chronic illness,made what was then a long drive out to Bethesda, Maryland, todedicate the campus of the new National Institutes of Health(NIH). When he made this trek, our nation was just recoveringfrom the worst economic depression in its history and was fightingto stay out of World War II. Nevertheless, Roosevelt's mindwas on the peacetime to come, on this nation's posterity, andas he stood on the NIH campus he told his audience, "We cannotbe a strong . . . [Full Text of this Article]
Politics and the NIH
The NIH Reauthorization Process
Strengthening the NIH
Conclusions
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Presented as the 103rd Shattuck Lecture to the Annual Meeting of the Massachusetts Medical Society, Boston, May 15, 1993.
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