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PROCLAMATION 3573-FEB. 7, 1964

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WHEREAS for more than three-quarters of a century the American Red Cross has served during periods of national emergency, war, and peace as a voluntary aid to the Government of the United States in matters affecting the welfare of all the American people; and WHEREAS such vital Red Cross services as the Blood Program, Disaster, First Aid, Water Safety, and Nursing Services, and other activities must be maintained at maximum effectiveness at all times; and WHEREAS these services and programs, essential to the United States and the welfare of its people, are carried on by the 46,000,000 members and volunteers of the 3,500 Red Cross chapters throughout the Nation; and WHEREAS the United States of America, as a signer and adherent to the Red Cross Treaty of Geneva, is a member of the International Red Cross family which now begins its one-hundredand-first year of effective service to the world community; and WHEREAS the American Red Cross, as a member of the League of Red Cross Societies and in cooperation with the League, assists in many of the great international relief programs around the world, bringing sustenance and hope to the victims of war, civil conflict, epidemic, and disaster; and WHEREAS, acting under the provisions of the Geneva Conventions, the American Red Cross and its sister societies have furnished voluntary aid to the sick and wounded of armies in time of war and have protected prisoners of war: NOW, THEREFORE, I, LYNDON B. JOHNSON, President of the United States of America and Honorary Chairman of the American National Red Cross, do hereby designate March 1964 as Red Cross Month; and I urge all Americans to honor the American Red Cross to the limit of their capability by participating in and strengthening its work. 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 thirty-first day of January in the year of our I ^ r d nineteen hundred and sixty-four, [sEALj and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eighty-eighth. LYNDON B. JOHNSON

By the President: DEAN

RUSK,

Secretary

of

State.

Proclamation 3573 NATIONAL POISON PREVENTION WEEK, 1964 By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation

WHEREAS untold numbers of innocent children, who are too young and inexperienced to comprehend their peril, are needlessly and thoughtlessly exposed to grave injury or even death as a result of the careless or negligent handling, storage, and disposal by adults of potentially poisonous medicines and household products; and

February 7, 1964

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