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PROCLAMATION 3617-SEPT. 22, 1964

[78 STAT.

WHEREAS the Congress, wishing to reemphasize the importance and the potential of our forest heritage, has by a joint resolution approved September 13, 1960 (74 Stat. 898), designated the seven-day period beginning on the third Sunday of October in each year as National Forest Products Week, and has requested the President to issue an annual proclamation calling for the observance of that week: NOW, THEREFORE, I, LYNDON B. JOHNSON, President of the United States of America, do hereby call upon the people of the United States to observe the week beginning October 18, 1964, as National Forest Products Week, with activities and ceremonies designed to direct public attention to the prominent role of our forest resources and our forest resources industry in contributing to the economic growth of our Nation, and to the significance of those resources as a base for the continued progress of rural America. I N W I T N E S S WHEREOF, I have hereunto set n ^ hand and caused the Seal of the United States of America to be affixed. D O N E at the City of Washington this 18th day of September 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-ninth. LYNDON B. JOHNSON

By the President: DEAN R U S K,

Secretary of State.

Proclamation 3617 NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER, 1964 September 22.1964

gy the President of the United States of America A Proclamation

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WHEREAS the Congress of the United States, by a joint resolution approved April 17, 1952, provided that the President "shall set aside and proclaim a suitable day each year, other than a Sunday, as a National Day of Prayer, on which the people of the United States may turn to God in prayer and meditation at churches, in groups, and as individuals": NOW, THEREFORE, I, LYNDON B. JOHNSON, President of the United States of America, do set aside and proclaim Wednesday, the twenty-first of October, as the National Day of Prayer in the year 1964. Under our laws, —every man has the right to pray; —no man can be told how he must pray; —each man prays as his own conscience dictates. I call upon all of our citizens, therefore, to observe the National Day of Prayer in accordance with our custom—each in his own way and in his own faith. I urge that each of us turn to God on that day —acknowledging that our country continues, as it was founded, "with a firm reliance upon the protection of divine Providence";

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