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PROCLAMATION 3760-JAN. 6, 1967

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May they never do so. But it is not enough to be offended by ugliness. Those who would not live without beauty must join in a tireless effort to bring it into being. They must help to reverse the sorry decline of cities and countryside. Tney must become a force for restoring order and dignity to the environment that surrounds them, I know that ugliness will yield to such a force, if it is supported by millions of our people, in public and private life. And, THEREFORE, I, LYNDON B. JOHNSON, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate the year 1967 to be Youth for Natural Beauty and Conservation Year; and I ask our young people—individually and through clubs, school groups, and other organizations—to observe, to plan, and to act to preserve and protect, salvage and restore, develop and enhance their surroundings. I ask the youth organizations which sponsored the National Youth Conference—and all other organizations and individuals working with youth—to expand the natural beauty and conservation activities now under way, and to begin new activities. I expect them to report their accomplishments to me during the year and also their plans for the future. I call upon the President's Council on Recreation and Natural Beauty, the Citizen's Advisory Committee on Recreation and Natural Beauty, and all Federal officials and agencies to cooperate, consistent with their authorities and available funds, in providing technical assistance and support to the young people. I t is an investment in better environment, and in better citizenship. I further call upon all citizens to be alert to the activities and hopes of our young people, to hear their requests, to encourage and assist them, and with them to grow more aware of the beauty of America and the ways in which we can preserve it. 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 28th 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: Secretary of State. Proclamation 3760 AMERICAN HISTORY MONTH January 6, 1967

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Proclamation

Our Nation's history is far more than a mere record of long ago events. For it is only through knowing and understanding the sources of our common heritage that we become aware of ourselves as being, in truth, one people.

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