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PROCLAMATION 3590-APR. 30, 1964
[78 STAT.
In this spirit, then, let us during this anniversary year devote ourselves, through our appropriate organizations, societies, publications and through our public discussions, to fostering a new understanding of the First Office of the American Government and to strengthening the service of that Office in meeting our continuing challenges. 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 thirtieth day of April, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and sixty-four, and of [SEAL] the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eighty-eighth. LYNDON B. JOHNSON
By the President: GEORGE W. BALL,
Acting Secretary
of State.
Proclamation 3590 UNITED NATIONS DAY, 1964 Apru 30, 1964
By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation
WHEREAS the United Nations is dedicated to the same noble principles that have made our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution a constant beacon of hope and inspiration for all mankind; and WHEREAS the United Nations has for 19 years repeatedly and decisively proved to be an increasingly effective and respected action agency for world peace, progress, and prosperity; and WHEREAS the United Nations, through its efforts and through those of its specialized agencies, has greatly benefited the United States and each of its other members, individually and collectively; and WHEREAS the United Nations has kindled an ever-increasing recognition and practice throughout the world of those humanitarian principles to which this country has long been dedicated; and WHEREAS the United Nations has earned, and is entitled to receive an affirmative expression of, the respect and recognition of this Nation, and of each of its other members, for its inestimable contributions to international peace, justice, and understanding; and WHEREAS it is essential that the United Nations be supported, both morally and materially, by us and by all of its other members; and WHEREAS intelligent public support of the United Nations by the people of this Nation depends in large measure upon a wide dissemination to our people of significant and accurate information concerning the United Nations; and WHEREAS the General Assembly of the United Nations has resolved that October twenty-fourth, the anniversary of the coming into force of the United Nations Charter, should be dedicated each year to making known the purposes, principles, and accomplishments of the United Nations:
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