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PROCLAMATION 3592-MAY 11, 1964

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I also urge business, labor, agriculture, educational and civic groups, as well as the people of the United States generally, to observe World Trade Week with gatherings, discussions, exhibits, ceremonies, and other appropriate activities designed to promote continuing awareness of the importance of world trade to our economy and our relations with other nations. 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 eighth day of May in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and sixty-four, and of the [SEAL] 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 3592 WOMEN VOTERS WEEK, 1964 May 11. 1964

gy the President of the United States of America A Proclamation

WHEREAS the maximum participation of our citizens in the elective process is a basic need for the development of our democracy; and WHEREAS within our voting-age population there are considerably more women than men; and WHEREAS the participation of American women in past elections has not been as great as that of men; and WHEREAS the League of Women Voters and other dedicated groups of our citizens have been undertaking special programs to ensure an increased participation of women in our elections: NOW, THEREFORE, I, LYNDON B. JOHNSON, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate the week beginning September 13, 1964, as Women Voters Week; and I urge that a special effort be made during this week to ensure maximum registration of qualified women. I also invite and urge all local election officials throughout the United States to join with private citizens and citizen organizations to publicize registration arrangements during that week and during the whole of the pre-election registration period so as to bring the greatest possible number of our citizens to the polls on November 3. 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. DONE at the City of Washington this eleventh day of May 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.

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