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President Harry S. Truman's remarks at the annual meeting of the President's Committee on National Employ the Physically Handicapped Week. The President spoke at 9:45 p.m. in the Departmental Auditorium in Washington at the opening of the fall meeting of the Committee. His opening words "Mr. Chairman" referred to Vice Adm. Ross T. McIntire, Chairman of the President's Committee on National Employ the Physically Handicapped Week. He also referred to Secretary of Labor Maurice J. Tobin and Federal Security Administrator Oscar R. Ewing. On the same day the President signed Proclamation 2939 "National Employ the Physically Handicapped Week, 1951." The Proclamation designated the week beginning October 7, 1951 for the observance. The President's address was broadcast.