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PROCLAMATION 3664-AUG. 3, 1965

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and farm organizations, as well as schools, civic groups, and public information agencies to observe Fire Prevention Week, to provide useful fire safety information to the public, and to enlist the active participation of all citizens in year-round fire prevention programs. I also direct the appropriate Federal agencies to assist in this effort to reduce the needless waste of life and property caused by preventable fires. 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 14th day of July 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 ninetieth. LYNDON B. JOHNSON

By the President: DEAN R U S K,

Secretary of State. Proclamation 3664 COMMEMORATING THE ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FOUNDING OF THE UNITED STATES COAST GUARD By the President of the United States of America

August 3, 1955

A Proclamation

WHEREAS August 4, 1965, marks the one hundred and seventyfifth anniversary of the founding of the United States Coast Guard, the Nation's oldest continuous seagoing service; and WHEREAS the Coast Guard: —protects or saves the lives and property of thousands of people each year through its vigilance and alertness; —enforces United States law afloat and protects the integrity of United States shores; —provides for the safety of the United States Merchant Marine and of numerous pleasure craft operating in our waters and on the high seas, through the establishment and maintenance of a system of aids to navigation and requirements for seaworthiness, proper equipment, and qualified personnel; —maintains a state of readiness as a branch of the Armed Forces; and WHEREAS it is fitting that the Coast Guard receive the recognition and support of all citizens in the accomplishment of its many tasks; and WHEREAS the men of the Coast Guard who are called upon to act in situations of stress and danger draw a great part of their strength and courage from this recognition and support; and WHEREAS the Congress, by a joint resolution approved August 3, 1965, has requested the President to issue a proclamation commemo- •^"**' ^" '*^^rating the one hundred and seventy-fifth anniversary, on August 4, 1965, of the founding of the United States Coast Guard at Newburyport, Massachusetts: NOW, THEREFORE, I, LYNDON B. JOHNSON, President of the United States of America, do hereby call upon the people of the 49-850 0-66-97

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