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PROCLAMATION 3588-APR. 30, 1964

[78 STAT.

Proclamation 3588 April 30, 1964

NEW YORK WORLD'S FAIR gy,|,e President of the United States of America A Proclamation

Ante, p. 1208.

WHEREAS many foreign governments and overseas private organizations are active participants in and exhibitors at the New York World's F a i r; and WHEREAS the F a i r will attract a great number of visitors from those exhibiting countries and other parts of the world; and WHEREAS the Government of the United States and the governments of many of the several States of the United States are also active participants in and exhibitors at the F a i r; and WHEREAS the Congress, by Senate Concurrent Resolution 80, agreed to April 21, 1964, requested the President, in the name of the people of the United States, to welcome all who come to the United States to visit the F a i r; to extend official recognition to the F a i r; and to call upon officials and agencies of the Government to lend such cooperation as may be appropriate for those purposes: NOW, THEREFORE, I, LYNDON B. JOHNSON, President of the United States of America, in recognition of the value of the New York World's F a i r as an effective instrument for the promotion of international understanding, good will, tourism, and trade, do hereby extend the welcome of the people of the United States to those persons who come to our country to visit the New York World's Fair, and express the hope that they will take this opportunity to enjoy the hospitality of other parts of our Nation. I also urge Federal, State, and local officials, and the people of the United States, generally, to assist in making our overseas visitors welcome and in furthering their enjoyment of their visit to our 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. D O N E at the City of Washington this thirtieth 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. LYNDON B. JOHNSON

By the President: GEORGE W. BAUL,,

Acting Secretary of State.

Proclamation 3589 COMMEMORATION OF THE BEGINNINGS OF THE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENCY OF THE UNITED STATES April 30, 1964

By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation

On the thirtieth day of April, in the year Seventeen Hundred and Eighty-nine, on the balcony of the Federal Hall in New York City, George Washington took the oath as the first President of the United States of America.

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