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PROCLAMATION 3581-APR. 14, 1964

WHEREAS, by a joint resolution approved August 2, 1956 (70 Stat. 932), the Congress requested the President to designate the week beginning September 17 of each year as Constitution Week—a time for the study and obserAance of the acts and events which resulted in the formation of the Constitution; and WHEREAS those resolutions of the Congress authorize the President to issue annually a proclamation calling for the observance of Citizenship Day and of Constitution Week: NOW, THEREFORE, I, LYNDON B. JOHNSON, President of the United States of America, call upon the appropriate officials of the Government to display the flag of the United States on all Government buildings on Citizenship Day, September 17, 1964; and I urge Federal, State, and local officials, as well as all religious, civic, educational, and other organizations, to hold appropriate ceremonies on that day to inspire all our citizens to pledge themselves anew to the service of their country and to the support and defense of the Constitution. I also designate the period beginning September 17 and ending September 23, 196-1:, as Constitution Week; and I urge the people of the United States to observe that week with appropriate ceremonies and activities in their schools and churclies and in other suitable places to the end that our citizens may have a better understanding of the Constitution and of the rights and responsibilities of United States Citizenship. 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 fourteenth day of April in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and sixty-four, and [SEAL] of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eighty-eighth.

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36 USC 159.

LYNDON B. JOHNSON

By the President: George W. Ball, Acting Secretary of State.

Proclamation 3581 LOYALTY DAY, 1964 By the President of the United States of America

Apru i4, 1964

A Proclamation

The strength and vigor of our Nation is directly attributable to the dedication, devotion, and loyalty of its people to the democratic principles embodied in our Constitution, We have had the good fortune from the time of the inception of our system of freedom and justice under law to be blessed with sons and daughters who have willingly and courageously risked, or sacrificed, their lives and their fortunes in order that this Nation might live and prosper. But the wisdom and sacrifices of yesterday cannot assure the perpetuation of our democratic institutions—they can be preserved only by the constant vigilance of a devoted and dedicated citizenry. I t is for this reason that the Congress, by a joint resolution of July 18, 1958 (72 Stat. 369), designated May 1 of each year as Loyalty Day and ^^ "^^ ^^2. called upon the President to issue a proclamation inviting the people of the United States to observe that day with appropriate ceremonies.

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