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PROCLAMATION 3966-FEB. 25, 1970

To impress upon each person in this country the urgent need for eye care, the Congress by joint resolution approved December 30, 1963 (77 Stat. 629), has requested the President to proclaim the first week in March of each year as Save Your Vision Week. NOW, THEREFORE, I, RICHARD NIXON, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim the week of March 1, 1970, as Save Your Vision Week; and I invite appropriate officials of State and local governments to issue similar proclamations. I also call upon all our citizens, especially those in the communications media, the health care professions, and other interested organizations to unite during that week in support of programs to improve and protect the vision of Americans. I N W I T N E S S WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twenty-third day of February, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred seventy, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred ninety-fourth.

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(^/ZJU^-'TCSJC^ Proclamation 3966 RED CROSS MONTH, 1970 By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation

I n a democracy like the United States of America, we learn early that each one of us has a responsibility not only to himself, but to his fellow citizens, and to the nation as a whole. As the world around us grows smaller, our sense of responsibility to mankind has extended until it includes the peoples of the entire earth. Nowhere is the compassionate feeling for mankind, and his welfare, better exemplified than in the mission of the Red Cross. The humanitarian work of the Red Cross is recognized by all nations. For eightynine years the American Red Cross has served this nation and its people unselfishly, while constantly striving to do more. NOW, THEREFORE, I, RICHARD NIXON, President of the United States of America and Honorary Chairman of the American National Red Cross, do hereby designate March, 1970, as Red Cross Month, a time when the organization will ask for your active support. I urge every American to do his utmost to secure the strength of the Red Cross by serving as a volunteer if possible and by contributing to his full ability. I N W I T N E S S WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 25th day of February, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and seventy, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and ninety-fourth.

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February 25, 1970

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