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PROCLAMATION

30, 1974

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to support these vital activities, and we must work to extend and enhance the valuable and satisfying services of our volunteers. NOW, THEREFORE, I, RICHARD NIXON, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate the calendar week beginning April 21, 1974, as National Volunteer Week. I urge all Americans to observe that week by seeking out an area in their community in which they can give to a needy individual or a worthy cause by devoting a few hours, or more, each week to volunteer service. I call upon all communities throughout the United States to recognize volunteers by observing the week with special ceremonies to honor those who have given countless hours for the betterment of our communities and the American way of life. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twentieth day of April, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred seventyfour, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred ninety-eighth. RICHARD NIXON

Proclamation 4289

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April 30, 1974

Law Day, U.S.A., 1974 By the President

of the

United

States

of

America

A Proclamation America's greatest gift to world history and its own people is a system of government which has permitted human freedom to flourish for nearly two hundred years. The pillars of that freedom are the Constitution and our laws. Though established by human beings and administered by human beings, the law has force beyond the wish or the will of any single person or single group of persons. Our freedoms survive because no man or woman is beneath the protections of the law. And the law retains its value and force because every person knows that no man or woman is above the requirements of the law.

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