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PROCLAMATION 3676-SEPT. 30, 1965

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WHEREAS we have the resources and the incentive to give our children constantly improving medical care as a result of the unprecedented advances that are being made in scientific, medical, and social attainments; and WHEREAS the observance of a special day emphasizing child health serves effectively to underscore these goals; and WHEREAS the Congress, by a joint resolution of May 18, 1928, 45 Stat. 617, as amended by a joint resolution of September 22, 1959, 73 Stat. 627 (36 U.S.C. 143), requested the President of the United States to issue annually a proclamation setting apart the first Monday in October as Child Health Day; and WHEREAS Child Health Day is also an appropriate time to observe a Universal Children's Day and to salute the work which the United Nations, through its specialized agencies, and the United Nations Children's Fund are doing to build better health for children around the world: NOW, THEREFORE, I, LYNDON B. JOHNSON, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate Monday, October 4, 1965, as Child Health Day; and I invite all persons and all agencies and organizations interested in the health and welfare of children to unite on that day in observances that will bolster our efforts to foster their growth into full participants in our society. 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. DONE at the City of Washington this twenty-ninth day of September in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and sixty[SEAL] five, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and ninetieth. LYNDON B. JOHNSON

By the President: GEORGE W. BALL,

Acting Secretary of State.

Proclamation 3676 VETERANS DAY, 1965 By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation

As a nation and as a people, world peace is our fixed star and our first goal. As a symbol of our devotion to this objective, the Congress of the United States has set apart the eleventh of November as a legal holiday, to be known as Veterans Day and to be dedicated to the cause of world peace (Act of May 13, 1938, 52 Stat. 351, as amended (5 U.S.C. 87a)). On this day, we pay deserved honor to the millions of our fellow citizens who have served in the armed forces of our country in times of war and of conflict and, in grateful appreciation of their devotion and sacrifice, we give outward expression to our deep-seated desire for world peace. Our observance of this day serves to remind us that it is by our deeds and not by our words that we can and will lead the rest of the world in the cause of freedom and peace. We must never forget that it is not enough just to want peace or to talk peace or to hope for peace. We must constantly work for peace.

September 30, 1955

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