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PROCLAMATION 4195-MAR. 12, 1973

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new awareness has taught us that our natural resources are exhaustible, we know that our most important resource, the American spirit, is not. We can never rest in the effort to preserve and improve our good earth. Earth Week, 1973 gives us the chance to affirm our dedication to that high calling. NOW, THEREFORE, I, RICHARD NIXON, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate the week beginning April 8, 1973, as Earth Week. I call upon Federal, State and local officials to foster the purposes of Earth Week and to arrange for its proper observance. I ask that special attention be given to personal voluntary activities and educational efforts directed toward protecting and enhancing our life-giving environment. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 12th day of March, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred seventy-three, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred ninety-seventh. C^^"* .»y

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PROCLAMATION 4195

Small Business Week, 1973 By the President of the United States of America

A Proclamation In no facet of our national life is the American genius for independence, innovation and self-improvement better displayed than in the small business community. The instinct to create, sustain and expand an independent enterprise is as old as America herself—an impulse that brought the earliest settlers to our shores and motivated generation after generation of our citizens in their onward, upward march. Nowhere is it more clearly evident today than among our Nation's 8 million small businesses. In the past year alone, more than 70 thousand new companies were started. Nineteen out of every twenty firms are considered small business, and they provide approximately 35 million jobs, and contribute more than $420 billion to the gross national product. They also provide a ladder of opportunity to hard working, ambitious Americans of all races and creeds—the chance to harness individual

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