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PROCLAMATION 3677-OCT. 2, 1965

[79 STAT.

Exerting our own best efforts and working together with other nations, we can and will build an order of world peace which will endure for generations. NOW, THEREFORE, I, LYNDON B. JOHNSON, President of the United States of America, call upon all the people of our Nation to observe Thursday, November 11, 1965, as Veterans Day, commemorating the service of our war veterans and showing our continued dedication to the cause of world peace and the establishment of a world community in which every nation can follow its own course without fear of its neighbors. I direct the appropriate officials of the Government to arrange for the display of the flag of the United States on all public buildings 6n Veterans Day, Also, in order that this day may be marked with suitable exercises and public ceremonies throughout our Nation, I request the officials of the Federal and State Governments and of civic and patriotic organizations to give their enthusiastic support to the Veterans Day National Committee. 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 thirtieth day of September 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 ninetieth. LYNDON B, JOHNSON

By the President: GEORGE W. BALL,

Acting Secretary of State.

Proclamation 3677 SEE THE UNITED STATES THROUGH 1966 October 2, 1965

By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation

78 Stat. 1259.

WHEREAS By Proclamation No. 3607 of August 15, 1964, I designated the years 1964 and 1965 as a period in which all persons were especially invited to see the United States; and WHEREAS our people are striving through private initiative and through public programs at all levels of Government to preserve and develop the beauty of this land; and WHEREAS they are touring the length and breadth of this land to observe personally the splendor of their country and through these travels are becoming increasingly aware of the destiny of their Nation; and WHEREAS foreign tourists are seeing America and visiting her national shrines and natural wonders in mounting numbers; and WHEREAS continuing efforts are being made to make their stay on our shores more enjoyable and to give them a better understanding of our homeland, its history, and its tradition; and WHEREAS a number of festivals, fairs, pageants, and other ceremonials will take place in 1966 in the United States, its territories and possessions, and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico; and

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