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President Harry S. Truman's remarks on the presentation of the report of the Commission on the Health Needs of the Nation, White House, The Presidents Office. The Commission's report, entitled "Building America's Health," was printed in five volumes: Volume 1, "Findings and Recommendations" (80 pp.), Volume II, "America's Health Status, Needs and Resources" (320 pp.), Volume III, "America's Health Status, Needs and Resources; a Statistical Index" (299 pp.), Volume IV, "Financing a Health Program for America" (363 pp.), and Volume V, "The People Speak; Excerpts from Regional Public Hearings on Health" (521 pp.). Volume I, which the President received on this day, was published in 1952, and the remaining four volumes were published in 1953, by the Government Printing Office.