The Director of the National Office on Drug Control Policy, General Barry McCaffrey, is with us as well. He's a great friend of the Department and he is strongly committed to our nation's health goals. I've already mentioned Dr. Richmond. There have been several others who have worked on this and earlier Healthy People plans including, Dr. Phil Lee, Dr. Robert Windom, Dr. Merlin DuVal, Dr. Edward Brandt Jr., Dr. James Mason, and Dr. J. Michael McGinnis. They've each made lasting and substantial contributions to the Healthy People process.
Today is an historic occasion.
We are not only launching the nation's public health strategy for the next decade, we're issuing the first public health goals of the 21st century. So Healthy People 2010 is not just another federal plan to be printed, launched and shelved, . . . Healthy People 2010 is about all of us. Weak and strong. Americans, Native-Americans, and Hispanics.