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PROCLAMATION 3627-NOV. 13, 1964

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Proclamation No. 3298 of June 3, 1959, as amended, entitled "Immi- ^^jlc*^;^^• gration Quotas," is further amended by the addition of the quota for note. Malawi. 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 thirty-first day of October 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 KUSK,

Secretary of State. Proclamation 3627 THANKSGIVING DAY, 1964 By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation

As the harvest season draws to a close and our storehouses bulge with the bounty of the land, it is our desire to observe, in the custom and tradition of our forebears, a special day dedicated to giving thanks to God—a day on which to lay aside our daily tasks and cares and pay joyous homage to Him. We are impelled to raise our voices in His praise and to proclaim our heartfelt gratitude for another year in which we have been blessed with a bountiful harvest, with intellectual, humanitarian, economic, scientific, and technical advances and achievements, and with other gains too numerous to mention. Although we have been blessed with unsurpassed prosperity, we recognize that poverty and want exist throughout the world—even among us—and we pledge ourselves to the eradication of those evils. We know, too, that the foundation for a peaceful world is still to be built and that even now armed strife exists in parts of the world. We are saddened that gallant men of our Armed Services have fallen in the eternal quest for peace with freedom, dignity, and justice for all. We share with their bereaved families and friends a sense of tragic loss. I n the words of Abraham Lincoln, we resolve "that these honored dead shall not have died in vain," and vow that their loss will spur us ever onward until man's great dream of universal peace is realized. Yet we are filled with an instinctive impulse to give thanks for —our free society of free men, free institutions, and free elections; —our freedom of speech, our freedom of the press, and our freedom to worship as our conscience dictates; —our emphasis upon the dignity, equality, and worth of man; —our humanitarian instincts; —our unalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; —our confidence in our ability to meet the challenges of today and of the future. For these are the things that set us apart as a Nation—that made our Nation great—that will keep our Nation great. 49-850 0 - 6 6 - 9 4

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