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PROCLAMATION 3765-JAN. 30, 1967

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NOW, THEREFORE, I, LYNDON B. JOHNSON, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate the week beginning July 2, 1967, as National Safe Boating Week. I encourage all Americans using our waterways to learn and observe boating safety practices and emergency procedures, and to minimize the injury, loss of life, and destruction of property resulting from such boating accidents as occur. I urge them to extend courteous treatment to their fellow boatmen during this week and throughout the year. I also invite the Governors of the States, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and other areas subject to the jurisdiction of the United States to provide for the observance of this week. 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 twenty-fourth day of January in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and sixty-seven, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and ninety-first.

By the President: Secretary

of State. Proclamation 3765

January 30, 1967

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Cross represents the American people s concern tor their armed forces, and in this capacity swiftly extended the full range of its morale and welfare services for the armed forces to our men in Viet-Nam as well as their families at home. The American Red Cross cooperates unceasingly with the International Committee of the Red Cross for the full protection of prisoners of war. Also under its Congressional Charter, the American Red Cross is charged with specific responsibilities for citizens threatened or affected by disaster, and last year assisted victims of over 14,000 disaster situations. The American Red Cross as one of the 106 members of the League of Red Cross Societies joins in helping victims of disasters, famines, epidemics, and civil strife around the world. I t provides a network of regional blood centers through which Americans may donate blood for the benefit of the sick and injured, thus contributing to the health resources of the nation. The American Red Cross represents a potent force for safety and health as demonstrated by over 4,000,000 certificates issued in 1965-66 to persons completing Red Cross water safety, small craft, first aid and home nursing courses.

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