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PROCLAMATION 3412—MAY 8, 1961

I also urge the Governors of the States to issue similar proclamations and ask the appropriate officials of the Federal and State Governments, public and private organizations, and the general public to join in observance of this significant occasion. During this period I encourage all Americans to judge the value of highway transportation to their own activities and to our National welfare. 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 twenty-ninth day of April in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and [SEAL] sixty-one and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eightyfifth. JOHN F. KENNEDY

By the President: DEAN

RUSK,

Secretary of State. MOTHER'S DAY, 1961 i^y 8, 1961 By fhe President of the United States -~

of America A Proclamation

WHEREAS the strength of our Nation depends upon the strength of the American home, where the spiritual, physical, and intellectual development of our children is begun and fostered; and WHEREAS the American mother, as the heart of the American home, by her labor and love instills in our homes and nurtures in our children the spirit of our country; and WHEREAS it is a cherished American custom to devote one day each year to

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