103 STAT. 2980 PROCLAMATION 5927—DEC. 23, 1988 Those successes have been notable. They include playing a key role in many breakthroughs in health care; battling diseases such as smallpox, tuberculosis, and pellagra; developing vaccines; performing with effi- ciency and courage during emergencies, epidemics, and similar situa- tions; and working in fields such as disease control and prevention, re- search, environmental intervention, and health care delivery and pro- gram management. Commissioned Corps members' broad training and experience make them an effective team of medical and health experts. The Corps offers health care for American Indians, Native Alaskans, the Coast Guard, the Merchant Marine, and the Buireau of Prisons and helps provide con- smner protection. Every member of the Commissioned Corps, past and present, deserves the heartfelt congratulations of the American people for outstanding ac- complishment in public health. That is a debt we should be only too happy to pay, on the centennial of the Corps and always. The Congress, by Public Law 100-652, has designated January 4, 1989, as "National Commissioned Corps of the Public Health Service Centen- nial Day" and authorized and requested the President to issue a procla- mation in observance of this event. NOW, THEREFORE, I, RONALD REAGAN, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim January 4, 1989, as National Commissioned Corps of the Public Health Service Centennial Day, and I call upon all Americans to observe this day with appropriate ceremo- nies and activities. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twenty- third day of December, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and eighty-eight, and of the Independence of the United States of America — the two hundred and thirteenth. ' - ^ ^ RONALDREAGAN Proclamation 5927 of December 23, 1988 ' / Martin Lutiier King, Jr., Day, 1989 By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation During January, America celebrates a national holiday in honor of the birthday of the Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr. We do so in memory of a man who asked to be recalled by his countrymen not for any earthly honors he had won but as "a drum major for justice." That title he deemed greater than any other because earning it would mean that he had not lived his life in vain. Today, America does remember Dr. King as a drum major for justice, as a giant whose life was far from being in vain. In a sermon on the eve of his assassination, he surely described his own mission when he asked, "Who is it that is supposed to articulate the longings and aspira- tions of the people more than the preacher? Somehow the preacher must be an Amos, and say, 'Let justice roll down like waters and right-
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