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PROCLAMATION 3577-MAR. 25, 1964

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Mindful of the vast tasks that still lie before us if the material progress and the social advancement of the Americas are to match the spiritual and cultural achievements of the republics of this Hemisphere, I urge all citizens of the United States and all interested organizations to join their Government in helping to make both P a n American Day and P a n American Week occasions for the recognition of past achievements, and for this Nation's rededication to the ideals of the inter-American system, and to the principles and objectives of the Charter of the Organization of American States and the Charter of Punta del Este. For on the maintenance of these ideals and the achievement of these objectives depends the future of freedom, human dignity, and national independence in this Hemisphere. 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 Second day of March in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and sixty-four, and of [SEAL] the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eighty-eighth. LYNDON B. JOHNSON

By the President: DEAN R U S K,

Secretary

of

State.

Proclamation 3577 CANCER CONTROL MONTH, 1964 By the President of the United States of America

March 25, 1964

A Proclamation

WHEREAS the scourge of cancer will be felt this year by more than half a million Americans; and WHEREAS continued research can lead to further increases in the number of cancer patients saved from death by this dread disease; and WHEREAS the gap between actual and potential gains in the cure of cancer patients can be narrowed by educating the public to cooperate with the medical profession in seeking earlier diagnosis and treatment; and WHEREAS further efforts to control this disease result not only in protecting the Nation's health but also in encouraging the scientists, medical practitioners, and official and voluntary health agencies already engaged in such efforts; and WHEREAS the Congress, by a joint resolution approved March 28, 1938 (52 Stat. 148), requested the President to issue annually a proclamation setting apart the month of April as Cancer Control Month: NOW, THEREFORE, I, LYNDON B. JOHNSON, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim the month of April 1964 as Cancer Control 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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