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PROCLAMATION 3647-MAR. 24, 1965

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the Department of Commerce. That agency has the responsibility for insuring that the United States possesses a merchant marine adequate to meet our economic and military requirements for an American-flag merchant marine. I t has served us well. That the American people might be constantly reminded of the importance of the merchant marine in our national life, the Congress in 1933 designated May 22 of each year as National Maritime Day and ^^ ^*|^- ^''• requested the President to issue a proclamation annually calling for the 36 USC 145. observance of that day. On that day in 1819 the SS Savannah set forth for the first transoceanic voyage of any steamship. Maritime Day should serve to remind all Americans that the maintenance of our merchant marine cannot be left to the Government alone, and that our fleet must ultimately be supported by Americans who ship their cargo on American ships. NOW, THEREFORE, I, LYNDON B. JOHNSON, President of the United States of America, do hereby urge the people of the United States to honor our American Merchant Marine on Saturday, May 22, 1965, by displaying the flag of the United States at their homes and other suitable places, and I request that all ships sailing under the American flag dress ship on that day in tribute to the American Merchant Marine. 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 twenty-fourth day of March in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and sixty-five, and [SEAL] of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eighty-ninth. LYNDON B. JOHNSON

By the President: 1)EAN R U S K,

Secretary of State. Proclamation 3647 WORLD TRADE WEEK, 1965 By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation

WHEREAS the vigorous growth of our reciprocal trade with nations around the world advances the attainment of a more abundant life for every American; and WHEREAS the continued expansion of the international exchange of the products of people's labors is mutually profitable to all trading nations and builds greater good will among them; and WHEREAS we are working together with other nations to enlarge the opportunities for global marketing, by both developed and developing countries, through reciprocal reduction of trade barriers in the Kennedy Round of multilateral trade negotiations; and WHEREAS more and more American businessmen are engaging in trade with overseas businessmen; and WHEREAS American export progress, serving as an inspiring illustration of the strength of our private enterprise, encourages businessmen throughout the United States to seek new opportunities in the world's growing markets; and 49-850 0-66-96

March 24, 1965

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