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PROCLAMATION 3566-DEC. 30, 1963

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of December 17, 1963, with ceremonies and activities designed to commemorate the achievements of the Wright brothers and to further and stimulate interest in aviation in this country. 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. DONE at the City of Washington this seventeenth day of December in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and sixty-three, [SEAL] and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eighty-eighth. LYNDON B. JOHNSON

By the President: GEORGE W. BALL,

A ding Secretary of State. Proclamation 3566 AMERICAN HEART MONTH, 1964 By the President of the United States of America

December 30. 1963

A Proclamation

WHEREAS diseases of the heart and the circulatory system are responsible for over one-half the deaths occurring annually; and WHEREAS over one-half of the ten million Americans afflicted by the cardiovascular diseases are stricken during their most productive years, thereby causing a staggering physical and economic loss to the nation; and WHEREAS expanded research has contributed improved methods of prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of the cardiovascular diseases; and WHEREAS substantial progress in combating those diseases is being made by comprehensive educational and community programs which have brought about swift and wide dissemination and use of such improved methods; and WHEREAS these programs of research and education have resulted largely from the teamwork between the American Heart Association, its chapters and affiliates, and the Federal Government, particularly the Publi'C Health Service through the National Heart Institute and the Heart Disease Control Program; and WHEREAS the results thus far achieved in combating the cardiovascular diseases give hope that the continuation and expansion of these programs may eventually eliminate these diseases as important causes of death; and WHEREAS it is essential to the health and well-being of our nation that our citizens be made aware of the medical, social, and economic aspects of the problem of cardiovascular diseases, and the measures being taken to combat them; and WHEREAS the Congress, by joint resolution approved December 30, 1963, has requested the President to issue annually a proclamation Ante, p. 843. designating February as American Heart Month: NOW, THEREFORE, I, LYNDON B. JOHNSON, President of the United States of America do hereby proclaim the month of February 1964 as American Heart Month; and I invite the governors of the States, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and other areas subject to the jurisdiction of the United States to issue similar proclamations.

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