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PROCLAMATION 4053-MAY 11, 1971

[85 STAT.

1971, Father's Day, as National Multiple Sclerosis Society Annual Hope Chest Appeal Weeks. NOW, THEREFORE, I, RICHARD NIXON, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim the period from May 9, 1971, through June 20, 1971, as National Multiple Sclerosis Society Annual Hope Chest Appeal Weeks. I invite the Governors of the States and the appropriate officials of other areas under the United States flag to issue similar proclamations. I urge the people of this Nation and their educational, philanthropic, scientific, medical, and health care professions and organizations to join in providing the assistzmce and resources necessary to discover the cause of multiple sclerosis and its cure and to help alleviate the suffering of persons stricken by this diseeise. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this eighth day of May, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred seventy-one, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred ninety-fifth.

(^/iiJL^^-TCSjC^ PROCLAMATION 4053

Voluntary Overseas Aid Week and Human Development Month May u, 1971

^y the President of the United States of America

A Proclamation During this month of May 1971, we take grateful note of the twentyfive years of constructive leadership provided by the Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid. United States voluntary agencies, working in close association with the Advisory Committee, have through the years given needed assistance to promote economic and social development in over one hundred countries of the world. The International Walk for Development, which has recently taken place, focused on the need to continue humanitarian assistance and economic development through voluntary action. It is fitting that we commend the good will of the people of our country, manifested by our overseas programs of development and relief, and the humanitarian work and interest of these nonprofit service organizations.

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