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PROCLAMATION 3922-AUG. 13, 1969

[83 STAT.

Proclamation 3922 NATIONAL HIGHWAY WEEK, 1969 August 13, 1969

By jhe President of the United States of America A Proclamation

Americans today own more than 80 million passenger cars and drive each of them an average of 9,600 miles a year—or three times the distance from Portland, Maine, to San Diego, California. This is a measure of the personal mobility we now enjoy through highway transportation, one of the major elements in our transportation system. It is a mobility that opens new horizons in employment opportunity, in choice of residence, and in educational, religious, political, recreational, and other social activities. Highway transportation has developed from a vast private investment in motor vehicles and a vast puolic investment in highway facilities. These facilities, in turn, are to a large extent, the product of a unique Federal-State partnership in road building. In 1956 we called upon this partnership to build a new network of super-roads, the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways. Now two-thirds completed, the Interstate System already is providing the public with the benefits of safer, faster, and more economical highway transportation. To assure the best use of the public investment in highways, all Americans must give special attention to improving the safety and efficiency of highway transportation. NOW, THEKEFOKE, I, RICHARD NIXON, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim the week beginning September 21, 1969, as National Highway Week, and I urge Federal, State, and local officials, as well as highway industry and other organizations, to hold appropriate ceremonies during that week in recognition of what highway transportation means to our Nation. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 13th day of August, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and sixtynine, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and ninety-fourth.

(^ia^^-^K.:^ Proclamation 3923 WORLD LAW DAY, 1969 August 14. 1969

By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation

Economic and social progress bears a direct relationship to the establishment and maintenance of orderly societies and a world community of peaceful nations. Thus, laws which advance economic and social development can bring about essential progress in securing freedom for all men in all nations. Governments are rightfully concerned about the economic and social progress of people, but much can be done on a private and

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