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PROCLAMATION 3582-APR. 17, 1964

[78 STAT.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, LYNDON B. JOHNSON, President of the United States of America do hereby call upon the people of the United States, and upon all patriotic, civic, and educational organizations to observe Friday, May 1, 1964, as Loyalty Day, in schools and other suitable places with appropriate ceremonies in which all of our people may join in a reaffirmation of their loyalty to the United States of America. I also call upon appropriate officials of the Government to display the flag of the United States on all Government buildings on that day as a manifestation of our loyalty to the Nation which that flag symbolizes. 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, [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,

Acting Secretary of State.

Proclamation 3582

April 17, 1964

NATIONAL DEFENSE TRANSPORTATION DAY AND NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION WEEK, 1964 gy jj^^ President of the United States of America A Proclamation

36 USC 160. 36 USC 166.

WHEREAS the transportation industry of this Nation is essential to the maintenance of our free enterprise system and our economic capability; and WHEREAS transportation is a strong and vital element in the national defense posture; and WHEREAS it is right and proper to recognize the importance of a modern, progressive transportation system to the well-being of each and every citizen of this country; and WHEREAS the Congress, by Senate Joint Resolution 22, approved May 16, 1957 (71 Stat. 30), has requested the President to proclaim annually the third Friday of May of each year as National Defense Transportation Day, and by House Joint Resolution 628, approved May 14, 1962 (76 Stat. 69), has requested the President to proclaim annually the week in May of each year in which falls the third Friday of that month as National Transportation Week, as a tribute to the men and women who, night and day, move goods and people throughout our land: NOW, THEREFORE, I, LYNDON B. JOHNSON, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate Friday, May 15, 1964, as National Defense Transportation Day, and the week beginning May 10, 1964, as National Transportation Week; and I urge our people to participate, together with the transportation industry, representatives of the armed forces, and other governmental agencies, in the observance of these occasions by appropriate ceremonies.

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