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PROCLAMATION 4135-MAY 12, 1972

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Fifty-eight years ago, Woodrow Wilson proclaimed the second Sunday of May as the special day to honor our mothers, calling upon the American people to make "a public expression of our love and reverence for the mothers of the country." The Congress, by a joint resolution of May 8, 1914, has set aside the second Sunday of May of each year as a day in which we honor all mothers for their countless contributions to their own families, to their communities, and to the Nation.

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NOW, THEREFORE, I, RICHARD NIXON, President of the United States of America, do hereby request that Sunday, May 14, 1972, be observed as Mother's Day; and I direct appropriate officials of the Government to display the flag of the United States on all Government buildings. I urge the people of the United States to show their reverence and respect for the mothers of this country by special expressions of affection and gratitude.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this eleventh day of May in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred seventytwo, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred ninety-sixth. y^ni^t*.•^n.».•y

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, PROCLAMATION 4135

World Trade Week, 1972 ' ^

By the President of the United States of America

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A Proclamation

From the earliest days of this Nation, the American people have been engaged vigorously in international trade. In this era of new competition, we intend to continue and expand such efforts. The benefits of such activity are manifest in the numerous U.S. job opportunities that foreign trade creates and in the enriched standard of living flowing from the freedom of the American people to buy diverse products from many lands. This mutually beneficial exchange of goods

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