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PROCLAMATION 3759-DEC. 28, 1966

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We must oppose any force—whether at home or abroad—which would deny these rights or take them away by threats or violence. We can take no other course. This is our heritage and our choice. NOW, THEREFORE, I, LYNDON B. JOHNSON, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim December 10, 1966, as Human Rights Day and December 15, 1966, as Bill of Rights Day, and call upon the people of the United States to observe the week of December 10-17 as Human Rights Week, with appropriate ceremonies and activities. IN 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 fifth day of December in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and sixty-six, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and ninety-first.

By the President:

Acting Secretury of

State.

Proclamation 3759 YOUTH FOR NATURAL BEAUTY AND CONSERVATION YEAR By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation

Last June, young men and women of the National Youth Conference on Natural Beauty and Conservation met in Washington and dedicated themselves: —to work toward creating a healthful environment in our cities and towns. —to speak out for the appreciation and protection of the beautiful. —to clean, to plant, to plan and build for beauty. —to plead with others to join them in that effort. They made this pledge because their generation will soon inherit an America that threatens to become physically ugly. The great industrial progress we have made in this century—resulting in an unparalleled prosperity for most of our people—has not been achieved without waste and blight. That progress grows with each year—and refuse, pollution and decay grow with it. I t is no part of America's dream that we should erect a house of material well-being in the cheerless atmosphere of physical blight. Our people will be denied their heritage if they must live out their lives among polluted rivers, spoiled fields and forests, and streets where nothing pleases the eye. Young people sense this strongly. They have not grown accustomed to ugliness. They have not resigned themselves to living among the litter and neglect of a careless civilization. 85-622 0-68—70

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