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36 USC 169b.

PROCLAMATION 3635-JAN. 28, 1965

[79 STAT.

WHEREAS joined with them in this partnership are the Nation's many resources for health and, most importantly, the people and their physicians; and WHEREAS the recent development of the recommendations of the President's Commission on Heart Disease, Cancer, and Stroke shows that we stand at the threshold of an historic breakthrough; and WHEREAS, with these and other guideposts and goals of this new year, we can and we must begin an immediate, concerted, and revitalized drive on our Nation's leading killer—heart disease; and WHEREAS it is both urgent and indispensable that all of our people become aware of the vast problem of heart disease and of what IS being done and can be done about it, and that every citizen join the endeavor as a member of the health forces of the Nation to help speed the conquest of heart disease; and WHEREAS the Congress, by a joint resolution approved December 30, 1963 (Y7 Stat. 843), requested the President to issue annually a proclamation designating February as American Heart Month: NOW, THEREFORE, I, LYNDON B. JOHNSON, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim the month of February 1965 as American Heart Month; and I invite the governors of the States, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and officials of other areas subject to the jurisdiction of the United States to issue similar proclamations. I urge the people of the United States to give heed to the nationwide problem of the heart and blood vessel diseases, and to support the programs required to bring about its solution. 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 28th day of January in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and sixty-five, and of the [SEAL] Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eighty-ninth. LYNDON B. JOHNSON

By the President: GEORGE W. BALL,

Acting Secretary of State. Proclamation 3635 NATIONAL POISON PREVENTION WEEK, 1965 January 28, 1965

By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation

Most of our medicines and common household products, when used as intended or directed, contribute to the health and well-being of the American people. The improper labeling, handling, storage, and disposal of such medicines and products, however, may result in serious injury or death by accidental poisoning. Each year thousands of children, too young to make distinctions, are the victims of such accidental poisonings. Adults, and others responsible for child care, can reduce or eliminate these hazards by exercising greater care in the use, handling, and disposal of these potentially harmful products.

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