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PROCLAMATION 3591-MAY 8, 1964

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NOW, THEREFORE, I, LYNDON B. JOHNSON, President of the United States of America, do hereby urge the citizens of this Nation to observe Saturday, October 24, 1964, as United Nations Day by means of community programs which will demonstrate their faith in the United Nations and contribute to a fuller understanding of its aims, problems, and accomplishments. I also call upon the officials of the Federal and State Governments and upon local officials to encourage citizen groups and agencies of the press, radio, television, and motion pictures to engage in appropriate observance of United Nations Day throughout the land in cooperation with the United States Committee for the United Nations and other organizations. 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. BALL,

Acting Secretary of State.

Proclamation 3591 WORLD TRADE WEEK, 1964 By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation

WHEREAS reciprocal world trade advances our progress toward global prosperity and abundance, freedom, and well-being; and WHEREAS the Kennedy Round of multilateral trade negotiations, which was opened in Geneva, Switzerland, on May 4, is designed to reduce international trade barriers in order to expand market opportunities for the benefit of both developed and developing countries of the world; and WHEREAS the expansion of United States export trade is vital to the improvement of our balance of international payments, to the continuing growth of American industry, and to the fuller employment of American workers; and WHEREAS the quickening pace of economic progress in nations around the world is enlarging the opportunities for our businessmen to sell American products abroad; and WHEREAS the progressive opening of national markets everywhere to greater international competition challenges American businessmen to participate more vigorously in the exchange of goods and services among nations and, thus, to provide an inspiring demonstration of the vigor and value of competitive private enterprise: NOW, THEREFORE, I, LYNDON B. JOHNSON, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim the week beginning May 17, 1964, as World Trade Week; and I request the appropriate Federal, State, and local officials to cooperate in the observance of that week.

May 8, 1964

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