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 PROCLAMATION 6133—MAY 10, 1990 104 STAT. 5277 these diseases and about effective ways to prevent and treat them. The dedicated personnel and supporters of those scientific, governmental, and voluntary health care organizations that engage in digestive disease research are keenly aware of the critical impact of these diseases and of the need for further study. These compassionate and hardworking men and women have committed themselves to increasing public understanding of gastrointestinal diseases and to advancing the Nation's research in the field. In recognition of the importance of their ongoing efforts to combat digestive diseases, the Congress, by House Joint Resolution 453, has designated the month of May 1990 as "National Digestive Disease Awareness Month" and has authorized and requested the President to issue a proclamation calling for observance of this month. NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE BUSH, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim the month of May 1990 as National Digestive Disease Awareness Month. I urge the people of the United States, as well as educational, philanthropic, scientific, medical, and health care organizations and professionals, to participate in appropriate ceremonies designed to encourage further research into the causes and cures of all types of digestive diseases. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this tenth day of May, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and ninety, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and fourteenth. GEORGE BUSH Proclamation 6133 of May 10, 1990 Mother's Day, 1990 By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation For more than three-quarters of a century, we Americans have celebrated the second Sunday in May as Mother's Day. On this day, we pause to honor all those women who, by virtue of giving birth, or through marriage or adoption, are mothers. "The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom," Henry Ward Beecher once wrote. Indeed, from his or her mother a child learns important lessons about love and loyalty, patience and generosity, personal responsibility, and respect for others. Because we remember these lessons for a lifetime, and because we carry them with us as members of a larger community, our mothers help to shape the character of our Nation. A mother is not only her httle ones' first teacher, but also their first and greatest friend. Her name is often the first word a child utters; her voice is one of the sweetest sounds a child knows. For some of us, childhood is now a precious memory, but our mothers continue to be as dear to us—perhaps ever more so, as we become more profoundly aware of the many gifts they have given us over the years. The depth of a mother's devotion, demonstrated time and again

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