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PROCLAMATION 3835-MAR. 8, 1968

[82 STAT.

This partnership will be called upon in the future to meet even greater challenges than ever before. To call public attention to the contributions of this great industry— and to the challenges it faces—the Congress, by a joint resolution approved May 16, 1957 (71 Stat. 30), has requested the President to proclaim annually the third Friday of May of each year as National Defense Transportation Day, and by a joint resolution approved May 14, 1962 (76 Stat. 69), has requested the President to proclaim annually th& week of May in which that Friday falls as National Transportation Week, as a tribute to the men and women who, night and day, move our goods and our people throughout the land and around the world. NOW, THEREFORE, I, LYNDON B. JOHNSON, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate Friday, May 17, 1968, as National Defense Transportation Day, and the week beginning May 12, 1968, as National Transportation Week. I urge our people to participate with representatives of the transportation industry, our armed services, and other governmental agencies in the observance of these occasions through appropriate ceremonies. I also invite the Governors of the States to provide for the observance of National Defense Transportation Day and National Transportation Week in a way that will give the citizens of each community the opportunity to recognize and appreciate fully the vital role our great and modern transportation system plays in their lives and in the defense of the Nation. I N W I T N E S S WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this seventh day of March, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and sixty-eight, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and ninety-second.

Proclamation 3835 SMALL BUSINESS WEEK, 1968 March 8, 1968

By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation

Today the United States possesses the strongest, most dynamic economy in man's history—an economy created by wise use of the system of free, competitive enterprise. Throughout the development of our dynamic marketplace, the small businesses of America have been the building blocks of our economic structure. The creative abilities and diversified commercial efforts of small businessmen have fostered the innovative genius that has always been the hallmark of American economic progress. Today there are more than five million small businesses in the United States, supplying many of the goods and services of our communities while providing a variety of job opportunities to local citizens. Perhaps even more important, small business continues to

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