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Digitized from Box 15 of the White House Press Releases at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 27, 1975
Office of the White House Press Secretary
THE WHITE HOUSE
CITIZENSHIP DAY AND CONSTITUTION WEEK, 1975
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION
Two hundred years ago, the men and women of the
American Revolution pledged their lives, their fortunes,
and their sacred honor in the struggle for independence,
which ended September 3, 1783, with the signing of the
Treaty of Paris. In breaking with the past, they did not
neglect to build a better system for their posterity.
Today, we look back 200 years, not merely to take pride
in our history; we look back during this Bicentennial to
learn some practical lessons for today and tomorrow. As
we pay tribute, let us renew together our Founding Fathers'
pledge to our country -- our lives, our fortunes, and our
sacred honor. Let us always remember that freedom does
not come free.
Congress, by a joint resolution of February 29, 1952,
designated the 17th day of September of each year as
Citizenship Day in commemoration of the formation and
signing of the Constitution of the United States on
September 17, 1787, and authorized the President to issue
annually a proclamation calling upon officials of the
Government to display the United States flag on all
Government buildings on such day. By a joint resolution
of August 2, 1956, Congress authorized the President to
designate the period beginning September 17 and ending
September 23 of each year as Constitution Week and to
issue a proclamation calling for the observance of such
week.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, GERALD R. FORD, President of
the United States of America, call upon appropriate
Government officials to display the flag of the United
States on all Government buildings on Citizenship Day,
September 17, 1975 -- the 188th anniversary of the signing
of the Constitution. I urge Federal, State, and local
officials, as well as leaders of civic, educational and
religious organizations, to conduct appropriate ceremonies
and programs on that day.
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I also designate as Constitution Week the period
beginning September 17 and ending September 23, 1975, and
urge all Americans to observe that week with appropriate
ceremonies and activities in their schools, churches and
in other suitable places in order to foster a better
understanding of the Constitution, and of the rights and
responsibilities of United States citizens.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
twenty-seventh day of August, in the year of our Lord nineteen
hundred and seventy-five, and of the Independence of the
United States of America the two-hundredth.
GERALD R. FORD
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