why is the official name of your institute the unit kennedy shriver? -- the eunice kennedy shriver? wast: as i mentioned, it created by kennedy in 1962. that is because a couple of people effectively lobbied a couple of years leading up to that. one of them was bob cook, the head of pediatrics at johns hopkins in baltimore. he had a long-term career as a researcher in mental retardation, what today we would call intellectual development to disabilities. in doing that research, he had become quite well acquainted with a woman you use own family had been -- a woman whose own family had been touched by issues of mental retardation and that was eunice kennedy shriver. the two of them as a team spoke to many folks in congress and in the nation. there is an advantage if you want to lobby for something in washington to have your brother be the sitting president of the united states. eunice's work was instrumental in creating the nih and in those days it really focused on the issues of developmental disabilities. also child element in general. host: recent studies by your institute, one in

why is the official name of your institute the unit kennedy shriver? -- the eunice kennedy shriver?as i mentioned, it created by kennedy in 1962. that is because a couple of people effectively lobbied a couple of years leading up to that. one of them was bob cook, the head of pediatrics at johns hopkins in baltimore. he had a long-term career as a researcher in mental retardation, what today we would call intellectual development to disabilities. in doing that research, he had become quite well acquainted with a woman you use own family had been -- a woman whose own family had been touched by issues of mental retardation and that was eunice kennedy shriver. the two of them as a team spoke to many folks in congress and in the nation. there is an advantage if you want to lobby for something in washington to have your brother be the sitting president of the united states. eunice's work was instrumental in creating the nih and in those days it really focused on the issues of developmental disabilities. also child element in general. host: recent studies by your institute, one in eight u