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PROCLAMATION 3648-MAR. 24, 1965

[79 STAT.

WHEREAS American products, by their quality and variety, offer witness to the vigor and creativity of our economy in all parts of the world; and WHEREAS it is essential that we continue to expand our export trade, so that we may further improve our international balance of payments, accelerate the progress of our advancing American industry, and increase the employment of American workers: NOW, THEREFORE, I, LYNDON B. JOHNSON, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim the week beginning May 16, 1965, as World Trade Week; and I request the appropriate Federal, State, and local officials to cooperate in the observance of that week. I also urge business, labor, agricultural, educational, professional, and civic groups, as well as the people of the United States generally, to observe World Trade Week with gatherings, discussions, exhibits, ceremonies, and other appropriate activities designed to promote continuing awareness of the importance of world trade to our economy and our relations with other nations. 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, [SEAL] and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eighty-ninth. LYNDON B. JOHNSON

By the President: DEAN RTJSK,

Secretary of State. Proclamation 3648 SMALL BUSINESS WEEK, 1965 March 24, 1965

By j ^ ^ President of the United States of America A Proclamation

WHEREAS small business has through our history contributed to our cherished system of free, competitive enterprise; and WHEREAS the Nation's 4.7 million small businesses: —include nine of every ten businesses that supply the needs and wants of the American people; —provide more than a third of the Nation's goods and services; —contribute significantly to the well-being of our citizens, to the defense of freedom, and to the exploration of new scientific frontiers; and WHEREAS small business concerns, by continuing to grow in number and strength, will provide additional jobs needed by a growing Nation; and WHEREAS small business holds open the door of opportunity for men and women of all races and creeds; and WHEREAS small business is a source of new ideas, new methods, and new products which enrich the lives of our citizens and stimulate our economic growth; and

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