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EXCERPT: The three presentations which we have just heard have brought to you in several dimensions some of the high points of the findings of the President's Panel on Mental Retardation. There is no doubt that this report constitutes a major, if not the most important, "bench mark" in the history of mental retardation in this country and I dare say the world; but we cannot afford to contemplate, in leisurely adoration, this great achievement; -- five and one-half million retarded and their families are waiting for the benefits we can derive from the work of the President's Panel. They challenge us into tangible action and it is my task here this morning to discuss some of the ways in which we must implement the Panel's recommendations and to point up some of the obstacles we will encounter in the process....