On a visit to Paris, Mrs. Rose Kennedy, whose own daughter Rosemary is mentally retarded, stopped by to visit a small Paris school for retarded children. "These children can be trained to work and should be employed," she said, and went on to note that "such a person was employed for reupholstering work at the White House during my son's Administration." Meanwhile, in New York, plans were announced to break ground this week for the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Center for Research in Mental Retardation, supported in part by a $1,450,000 Kennedy family donation....
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