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PROCLAMATION 3634-JAN. 28, 1965

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Law Day, U.S.A., is an appropriate occasion for each of us to commit himself to the fulfillment of these responsibilities of citizenship. NOW, THEREFORE, I, LYNDON B. JOHNSON, President of the United States of America, do hereby request that the people of our land observe Saturday, May 1, 1965, with suitable programs and ceremonies, as Law Day, U.S.A. I urge that schools, churches, civic and service organizations, public bodies, courts, the legal profession, and the media of information participate in this educational and patriotic undertaking. I call upon public officials to display the Nation's flag on public buildings on that day as requested by the Congress. 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 seventh day of January in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and sixty-five [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 3634 AMERICAN HEART MONTH, 1965 By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation

WHEREAS in the year 1965 heart disease—ailments of the heart and blood vessels—is expected to take a toll of more than one million lives, and year by year continues to be responsible for over half of all the deaths in the United States; and WHEREAS an estimated 14.6 million Americans are suffering from heart disease and another 13 million are believed to be suffering from it; and WHEREAS that suffering constitutes an indescribable burden of human misery and results in a staggering loss of billions of dollars to our economy; and WHEREAS the recent sweep of scientific progress has brought significant new cardiovascular knowledge in the past few years and promises to produce even greater gains in the foreseeable future; and WHEREAS other advances are being made in combating cardiovascular diseases through programs of education of the public, training for the health professions, and community services for patients— programs that hasten the benefits of research to suffering humanity; and WHEREAS these essential and forward-looking programs are in the main the result of a national partnership of the American Heart Association and its Federal allies, especially the National Heart Institute and the Heart Disease Control Program of the Public Health Service, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare; and

January 28„ 1965

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