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 CONCURRENT RESOLUTIONS—MAY 1, 1986

100 STAT. 4349

. range of technical, operational and analytical intelligence activities; Whereas, John McMahon has an unparalleled record of service in key Central Intelligence Agency positions, including Executive Director, Deputy Director for Intelligence and Deputy Director for Operations, and also has had key management responsibilities for Intelligence Community affairs; Whereas, John McMahon's career progression from communications clerk to Deputy Director of Central Intelligence personifies the finest traditions of our Nation's professional intelligence officers; Whereas, John McMahon's many commendations and awards, including two Distinguished Intelligence Medals, testify to his extraordinary skill and outstanding leadership; Whereas, during a period of increasingly varied and complex international developments of concern to the United States, in which demands for timely, accurate intelligence information to support national polic5miakers are becoming simultaneously more intense and diverse, John McMahon has been instrumental in preparing the Intelligence Community for the challenges of the future and has thus made a major and lasting contribution to the national security of the United States; and Whereas, John McMahon has earned the respect, admiration, and trust of the highest officials in the executive and legislative branches of our Government, and particularly of the present and former members of the Intelligence Committees of the Senate and House of Representatives for his integrity and positive approach to Congressional oversight of our Nation's intelligence activities: Now, therefore, be it Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), That on the occasion of his retirement from an extraordinary career of public service, the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America express and record on behalf of the American people, their deep appreciation to John N. McMahon for his exceptionally distinguished service to the United States.

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Agreed to April 29, 1986.

DAYS OF REMEMBRANCE OF VICTIMS OF THE HOLOCAUST—CAPITOL ROTUNDA CEREMONY Whereas, pursuant to the Act entitled "An Act to establish the United States Holocaust Memorial Council" and approved October 7, 1980 (94 Stat. 1547), the United States Holocaust Memorial Council is directed to provide for appropriate ways for the Nation to commemorate the days of remembrance of victims of the Holocaust, as an annual, national, civic commemoration of the Holocaust, and to encourage and sponsor appropriate observances of such days of remembrance throughout the United States; Whereas, pursuant to such Act, the United States Holocaust Memorial Council has designated May 4 through May 11, 1986, as "Days of Remembrance of Victims of the Holocaust"; and Whereas the United States Holocaust Memorial Council has recommended that a one-hour ceremony be held at noon on May 6, 1986, consisting of speeches, readings, and musical presentations

May i, 1986 [s. con. Res. i26] 36 USC I40i.

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