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PROCLAMATION 3416—MAY 30, 1961

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of our Lord nineteen hundred [SEAL] and 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.

FLAG DAY, 1961 By the President of the United States '

of America A Proclamation

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WHEREAS the American flag is emblematic of a Nation indivisible, though its people are of diverse ethnic strains, races, and religions; and WHEREAS our flag symbolizes the ideals of freedom, justice, and brotherhood, which are deeply rooted in our political and spiritual traditions and which have helped our country to become a land of progress and a rampart of liberty; and WHEREAS in combat our flag has always been a guide and inspiration to our armed forces, who have given valiant expression to man's eternal striving for freedom; and WHEREAS these times call for renewed vitality, moral fervor, and intellectual understanding to safeguard the ideals and principles which our flag represents; and WHEREAS the Congress, by a joint resolution approved August 3, 1949 (63 Stat. 492), designated June 14 of each 36 USC 157. year as Flag Day, in commemoration of the adoption of the flag of the United States by the Continental Congress on June 14, 1777, and requested the President to issue annually a proclamation calling for its observance: NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOHN F. KENNEDY, President of the United States of America, do hereby direct that the flag of the United States be displayed 64207 0-62—70

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