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 c32 Mother's Day, 1957.

PROCLAMATIONS—MAY 9, 1957

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NOW, THEREFORE, I, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, President of the United States of America, do hereby request that Sunday, May 12, 1957, be observed as Mother's Day. I also direct the appropriate officials of the Government to arrange for the display of the flag of the United States on all Government buildings, and I urge upon the people of the Nation to display the flag at their homes or other suitable places, on that day. Let all the sons and daughters of this country pay tribute to their mothers on the appointed day and renew their devotion to the high principles of humanity which mothers exemplify. I N W I T N E S S WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States of America to be affixed. D O N E at the City of Washington this sixth day of May in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty-seven, and of the [SEAL] Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eighty-first. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER By the President: CHRISTIAN A. H E R T E R,

Acting Secretary of State.

JAMESTOWN D A Y May 9, 1957 [No. 3182]

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A PROCLAMATION

Jamestown Day.

WHEREAS on May 13, 1607, three small ships landed at what is now Jamestown, on the James River, in Virginia, and from that landing grew the first permanent English settlement in the United States; and WHEREAS at Jamestown legislative government representative of the people was transplanted to the New World; and WHEREAS the significance of the Jamestown settlement of 1607, as the first step toward the creation of the American Nation, should be impressed on the hearts of all who love our country and the ideals for which it stands; and WHEREAS this year marks the three hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Jamestown settlement, and the Nation looks back to the little island on the James River and marvels at the hardships endured by its pioneers in that untamed wilderness; and WHEREAS this milestone is an occasion for national thanksgiving, in which the churches, the schools, and all who bear the responsibility for our Nation's continued leadership should join wholeheartedly. NOW, THEREFORE, I, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim Monday, May 13, 1957, as Jamestown Day, and I call upon all citizens to join in commemorating the landing at Jamestown three hundred and fifty years ago. IN W I T N E S S WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States of America to be affixed. D O N E at the City of Washington this ninth day of May in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty-seven, and [SEAL] of 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 of State.

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