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PROCLAMATION 3624-OCT. 19, 1%4

[79 STAT.

evaluate the attainments of men of other nations, will encourage tourist travel to the United States, and will stimulate foreign trade; and WHEREAS the Congress, by a joint resolution approved August 27, 1964 (Public Law 88-496), has authorized and requested the President to issue a proclamation calling upon the several States of the Union and foreign countries to take part in the exposition; and WHEREAS the Governor of California has appointed a Commissioner General of the California World's Fair and will invite the several States of the Union to participate in the F a i r: NOW, THEREFORE, I, LYNDON B. JOHNSON, President of the United States of America, do hereby invite the several States of the Union and foreign countries to take part in the California World's Fair. 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 afiixed. DONE at the City of Washington this nineteenth day of October 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-ninth. LYNDON B. JOHNSON

By the President: DEAN R U S K,

Secretary of State.

Proclamation 3624 October 19, 1964

NATIONAL FIRST VOTERS WEEK gy (he President of the United States of America A Proclamation

On the third day of November next, nearly ten million of our citizens will be eligible to cast their first votes in a Presidential election. For these young persons, the forthcoming Presidential election will be a significant milestone. For the rest of us, this occasion will be no less important as we welcome a new group of young, vigorous, and forward-looking Americans to a full share in the privileges and responsibilities of free men. NOW, THEREFORE, I, LYNDON B. JOHNSON, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate the period October 25 through October 31, 1964, as National First Voters Week. I urge local election officials, private citizens, and citizen organizations to make a special effort during that week to assist in every possible way the millions of persons who are about to cast their first vote in a Presidential election. I also urge our first voters to consider seriously during that week the solemn nature of the obligation they are about to assume. I n particular, I urge that our first voters — go to the polls proudly, knowing that the duty they perform is the price of the privilege they hold — exercise their franchise gratefully, realizing that it is essential to their future as free men and women

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