Over 45 years have elapsed since President Richard Nixon, in his State of the Union address on Jan, 22, 1971, asked for an appropriation of an extra $100 million to launch an intensive campaign to find a cure for cancer. "The time has come in America when the same kind of concentrated effort that split the atom and took man to the moon should be turned toward conquering this dread disease. Let us make a total national commitment to achieve this goal."