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PROCLAMATION 3773-MAR. 30, 1967
During this week, set aside as Youth Temperance Education Week, let us consider ho^Y we may help our youngsters develop the moral and spiritual strength proudly to accept the challenge to build a better future for all mankind. To alert young people to the dangers of intemperance and to assist them in the development of moral strength, physical fitness, and civic responsibility, the Congress, by a joint resolution approved May 4, 1966, has requested the President to issue a proclamation designating the week beginning April 23, 1967, as Youth Temperance Education Week. To this end: NOW, THEREFORE, I, LYNDON B. JOHNSON, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim the week beginning April 23, 1967 as Youth Temperance Education Week; and I invite the Governors of the States, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and officials of other areas subject to the jurisdiction of the United States to issue similar proclamations.
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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 24th day of March, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and sixty-seven, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and ninety-first.
iuyvJU«»AyU**^'-*' ' By the President: Secretary of State. Proclamation 3773 SENIOR CITIZENS MONTH, 1967 By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation
Our society has made a commitment to enrich and improve the lives of the senior citizens among us. A great part of that commitment to the 19 million Americans who are 65 or over has been advanced during this Administration. Through Medicare, the often crushing burden of hospital and doctor bills has been eased. The Older Americans Act, with its emphasis on community services, gives direction and meaning to lives that might have been spent out in frustration and purposelessness. Other programs provide assistance to senior citizens in housing and nursing care, public welfare, and special training programs. Recommendations now before the Congress will make the older years of life even more productive and more comfortable by: —Increasing the benefits under Social Security;
March 3o,1967
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