Proc. 7293 Title 3--The President nors in remembering with pride and gratitude all those who gave of them- selves so that others might live. NOW, THEREFORE, I, WILLIAM }. CLINTON, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitu- tion and laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim April 16 through April 22, 2000, as National Organ and Tissue Donor Awareness Week. I urge all health care professionals, educators, the media, public and private organizations concerned with organ donation and transplantation, and all Americans to ioin me in promoting greater awareness and acceptance of this humanitarian action. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this fourteenth day of April, in the year of our Lord two thousand, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and twenty-fourth. WILLIAM J. CLINTON Proclamation 7293 of April 14, 2000 National Park Week, 2000 By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation We are fortunate to live in an era when the explosive growth of technology has put at our fingertips an extraordinary array of information. But even during this technological revolution, one of America's richest and most fas- cinating educational resources is also among its oldest: our national park system. Our national parks are living libraries and laboratories, where all Americans can experience the beauty and variety of nature and learn about our Nation's history and culture. Preserving the rare and unusual as well as the spectacular and beautiful, our national parks provide botanists, wildlife biologists, chemists, and other scientists the opportunity to conduct research into the fragile eco- systems that affect the health of people, plants, and animals around the world. Geologists and paleontologists find in our national parks the story of our continent, from the Grand Canyon's geologic formations to the an- cient bones resting at Dinosaur National Monument. The national park system also captures America's more recent history. In the National Historic Sites and along the National Historic Trails main- tained by the men and women of the National Park Service, we learn about the lives and achievements of American heroes like Lewis and Clark, So- journer Truth, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Elizabeth Cady Stan- ton, the Wright Brothers, and Thomas Edison. From Fort Necessity in Penn- sylvania, where a young George Washington saw action in the French and Indian War, to the quiet acres of Gettysburg, where one of the Civil War's bloodlest battles was fought, to the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala- bama, where the modern civil rights movement reached its emotional peak 35 years ago, Americans can see and touch their history. Today, we have 379 national parks, and each site offers a unique oppor- tunity to experience the wonder of nature, to stand in the footprints of his- 58
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