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PROCLAMATION 3465-APR. 9, 1962
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STAT.
Proclamation 3465 VOLUNTARY OVERSEAS AID WEEK .. ^P"^^ ^' ^^^2
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By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation
WHEREAS United States voluntary agencies have given needed assistance and promoted social and economic development efforts over a large area of the world; and WHEREAS the Government of the United States and its people have endorsed and supported the humanitarian efforts of these agencies which now reach needy persons in over one hundred nations; and WHEREAS people-to-people assistance, an invaluable supplement to our governmental overseas assistance efforts, is a reflection of American good will and of our belief in human dignity; and WHEREAS the Congress, by Senate Concurrent Resolution 61, agreed to April 4, 1962, has requested the President to issue a proclamation designating the week of April 9, 1962, as Voluntary Overseas Aid Week: NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOHN F. KENNEDY, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate the week of April 9, 1962, as Voluntary Overseas Aid Week. I request the appropriate agencies of the Federal Government, and I urge all our people, to observe that week with activities designed to focus attention on the efforts of our voluntary agencies to assist other peoples. I N W I T N E S S WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States of America to be affixed. D O N E at the City of Washington this ninth da.y of April in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and sixty-two, and of [SEAL] the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eighty-sixth. JOHN F.
KENNEDY
By the President: DEAN R U S K,
Secretary
of
State.
Proclamation 3466 POLICE WEEK AND PEACE OFFICERS MEMORIAL DAY, 1962 April 10. 1962
By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation
WHEREAS our law enforcement agencies play an essential role in safeguarding the rights and freedoms which have been guaranteed by the Constitution to every American citizen; and WHEREAS it is important that people throughout our country know and understand the problems, duties, and responsibilities of their police dejjartments, and that members of our law enforcement agencies recognize their duty to serve the people by safeguarding life and property, by protecting them against violence or disorder, and by protecting the innocent against deception and the weak against oppression or intimidation; and
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