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PROCLAMATION 3852-JUNE 1, 1968

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centennial of the signing of the 1868 Treaty of Peace between the Navajo Indian Tribe and the United States; and I call upon the Governors of the States, mayors of cities, and other public officials, as well as other interested persons, organizations, and groups to observe this centennial year of a progressive tribe of Indian Americans with appropriate celebrations and ceremonies. I N W I T N E S S WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this seventeenth day of May, 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 3852 CITIZENSHIP DAY AND CONSTITUTION WEEK, 1968 By the President of the United States of America

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A Proclamation

On September IT, 1787, the Founding Fathers signed the United States Constitution—the charter of a government founded upon the will of the governed, and consecrated to the preservation of freedom, equality, and justice. For 181 years, our constitutional government has remained strong and vigorous in the protection and advancement of our fundamental rights and privileges. We have received a magnificent heritage: a heritage of law and freedom, of order and liberty. To our generation, as to all others in the nearly two centuries of the American past, falls the task of guarding that heritage for ourselves and those who will follow us. If we seek to suppress individual rights in the quest for order, we shall betray our democratic heritage. If we confuse individual rights with license, we shall leave a disordered land to later Americans, a land where the rights of no one can l)€ truly secure. Our Constitution, as it lias developed through amendment and interpretation over 181 years, is a powerful star by whose light we chart the course of order and liberty. The Congress has wisely made provision for an annual rededication to the principles and ideals of the Constitution. By a joint resolution of February 29, 1952 (66 Stat. 9), the Congress designated the seven- 36 USC 153. teenth day of September of each year as Citizenship Day, not only to commemorate the signing of the Constitution on September 17, 1787, but also to honor those citizens who came of age or were naturalized during the year. By a resolution of August 2, 1956 (70 Stat. 932), the ^^ ^^c 159. Congress requested the President to designate the week beginningSeptember 17 of each year as Constitution Week. NOW, THEREFORE, I, LYNDON B. JOHNSON, President of the United States of America, call upon the appropriate officials of the Government to display the flag of the United States on all Government buildings on Citizenship Day, September 17, 1968. I urge Fed-

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