President Roosevelt's 1940 Dedication of the First NCI Building
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President Roosevelt's 1940 Dedication of the First NCI Building
On October 31, 1940, President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered a speech dedicating the first six buildings of the new National Institute of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. Building 6, as noted in this video excerpt, was NCI's first official building.