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PROCLAMATION 3404—APR. 5, 1961

the twenty-second day of May in tribute to the American Merchant Marine. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States of America to be affixed. DONE at the City of Washington this fifth day of April in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and sixty-one, [SEAL] and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eighty-fifth. JOHN P. KENNEDY

By the President: DEAN RUSK,

Secretary of State. CITIZENSHIP DAY AND CONSTITUTION WEEK, 1961 ^F^}^ M^.V By the President of the United States [No. 3404]

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WHEREAS the growth of our Nation and the safeguarding of its principles of liberty, justice, and opportunity rest upon the Constitution of the United States; and WHEREAS it is most fitting in these crucial times that all citizens, naturalized and native-born, pledge themselves anew to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution and to rededicate themselves to the service of our country; and WHEREAS by a joint resolution approved February 29, 1952 (66 Stat. 9), the Congress designated the seventeenth day of September of each year as Citizenship Day in commemoration of the signing of the Constitution on September 17, 1787, and in recognition of those citizens who have come of age and those who have been naturalized during the year; and WHEREAS by a joint resolution approved August 2, 1956 (70 Stat. 932), the

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