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PROCLAMATION 4116-MAR. 13, 1972

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The United States has spared no effort—by diplomacy, by negotia. tion, by every other means^—^to secure fair treatment of our captive sons and brothers and to obtain their ukimate freedom. As we set aside a special week of national concern for this continuing tragedy, and a special day of prayer for its resolution, we do so with a determination to persist in this effort—for principle, for peace, for the , sake of these brave men and their parents and brothers and sisters and wives and the children some have never seen.

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NOW, THEREFORE, I, RICHARD NIXON, President of the United States of America, as requested by the Congress in Senate Joint Resolution 189, do hereby designate the period of March 26 through April 1, 1972, as National Week of Concern for Prisoners of War/ Missing in Action, and Sunday, March 26, 1972, as a National Day of Prayer for the lives and safety of these men. I call upon all the people of the United States to observe this week with such appropriate ceremonies and activities as will stir and sustain widespread concern for the missing men and prisoners, nourish the patient courage of their loved ones, and—above all—hasten the day of their safe return to home and freedom.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this tenth day of March, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred seventy-two, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred ninety-sixth. - ..., I'^iH

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International Book Year, 1972 March 13, 1972

^y ^f^^ President of the United States of America

A Proclamation Books and libraries are among mankind's greatest sources of enlightenment. They contain the cultural inheritance of our forefathers and the core of our educational system. In the words of Thomas Carlyle: "All that Mankind has done, thought, gained or been; it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of Books." As this Nation approaches the beginning of its third century, we should remind ourselves that nothing in our heritage is more precious than the

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