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PROCLAMATIONS—MAY 6, 1957

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NATIONAL M A R I T I M E D A Y, 1957 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES O F AMERICA

April i!2. 1957 [No. 3180]

A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS a strong and effective American Merchant Marine is essential to the economy and security of our Nation; and WHEREAS the American Merchant Marine is carrying out its historic mission of linking the United States of America through trade and travel with friendly nations across the seas; and WHEREAS American merchant ships and American seamen are ready a t all times to serve our Nation in the cause of freedom and justice; and WHEREAS the Congress, by a joint resolution approved May 20, 1933 (48 Stat. 73), designated May 22 as National Maritime Day, 36use 145. thus honoring our Merchant Marine by commemorating the departure from Savannah, Georgia, on May 22, 1819, of the Savannah on the first transoceanic voyage by any steamship, and requested the President to issue a proclamation annually calling for the observance of that day: NOW, THEREFORE, I, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, President jNational Maritime of the United States of America, do hereby urge the people of ^^--is. the United States to honor our Merchant Marine on Wednesday, May 22, 1957, by displaying the flag of the United States a t their homes or other suitable places; and I direct the appropriate officials of the Government to arrange for the display of the flag on all Government buildings on that day. I also request that all ships sailing under the American flag dress ship on the twenty-second day of May in tribute to the American Merchant Marine. I N W I T N E S S WHEREOF, I have hereunto set m y hand and caused the Seal of the United States of America to be affixed. D O N E a t the City of Washington this 22nd day of April in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty seven, and of [SEAL] the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eighty-first. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER By the President: JOHN FOSTER D U L L E S,

Secretary qf State.

M OTHER ' S D A Y, 1957 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

May fl, 1967 [No. 3181]

A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS the American mother has ever given her strength to the homes which are a t the foundation of our national community; and WHEREAS it has become our happy custom to unite on one day each year in giving public acknowledgment to our common bond of gratitude for the love and discipline of motherhood; and WHEREAS the Congress, by a joint resolution approved May 8, 1914 (38 Stat. 770), has recognized the fitness of this custom by aeuscm. designating the second Sunday in May of each year as Mother's Day, and has requested the President to issue a proclamation calling for the observance of that day:

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