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PROCLAMATIONS—OCT. 22, 1957

among the metallurgists of the world and stimulate the search for minerals and for improved techniques in the field of metallurgy; and WHEREAS the joint resolution requests the President to grant recognition to the World Metallurgical Congress and to the American Society for Metals for its sponsorship of this world gathering of metallurgical scientists, and to call upon officials and agencies of the Government to assist and cooperate with such congress: NOW, THEREFORE, I, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, President of the United States of America, do hereby extend recognition to the Second World Metallurgical Congress and commend the American Society for Metals for initiating and sponsoring this meeting. I also extend the welcome of this Government to the Congress and to the scientists attending its proceedings, and I request that all Federal departments and agencies assist and cooperate with the Second World Metallurgical Congress as occasion may warrant. 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 tenth day of October 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-second. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER By the President: CHRISTIAN A.

Second World Metallurgical Congress.

HERTER,

Acting Secretary of State.

THEODORE ROOSEVELT CENTENNIAL Y E A R OCTOBER 27,

1957 - O C TO B E R 27,

1958

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A PROCLAMATION Theodore Roosevelt loved America with impassioned devotion and served her greatly in public office and as a private citizen. As President of the United States, his name is associated with epochal readjustments in the relations of government and industry, with the policy of conservation which he established, with the building of the Panama Canal, and with the peace that ended the Russo-Japanese War. His appeals to conscience sank deep into the American heart and mind and wrought enduring changes. A man of rich gifts in many fields, at home alike in the world of books, the world of politics, and in the wild waste spaces where adventure called, he was historian and ranchman, huntsman and naturalist, Rough Rider, preacher, family man, and explorer. His contemporaries cherished him as a two-fisted fighter who loved life, loved people, feared nobody, and was as much at ease with kings as with cowboys, a wielder alike of the winged phrase and of the sledge hammer, a dangerous antagonist, and an unforgetting, unforgettable friend. Upon us who stand outside the circle of time in which men felt his personal spell, Theodore Roosevelt exercises a different and, perhaps, a deeper power. We see, and claim for our own, the word, the spirit, and the example that survive for us in this teacher of the principles underlying democratic institutions—this summoner to participation in the procedures of free government, adjuring us, as he entreated the men and women of his own time, to accept the responsibilities of free

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