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Ronald Reagan Presidential Library
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Collection: Correspondence, White House Office of:
Records, 1981-89
Folder Title: International Special Olympics Week
and Day
Box: Box 81 (1987)
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PERSIDENT THE OF THE UNITED
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International Special Olympics Week and
Day, 1987
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
The 1987 VII International Summer Special Olympic Games, to be held from
July 31 to August 8 at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana,
will host 6,000 athletes, 15,000 volunteers, and thousands of guests from
around the United States and the world. Every American can be grateful for
the many dedicated and selfless organizers of these games, the largest world-
wide amateur sporting event of the year.
We can also be grateful indeed for the entire program of Special Olympics. Its
comprehensive local as well as national programs foster self-challenge and
discovery and help the physically and mentally impaired form a healthy self-
image, develop positive interpersonal skills and relationships, and realize all
they have to offer. Special Olympics is one of several advances-along with
recent progress in scientific and medical research and increased integration of
handicapped and developmentally disabled people into the workplace-that
have led to a dramatic change in public perception of the capabilities of this
important segment of our population. That is truly cause for celebration, at
this Special Olympiad and always.
The pride and good wishes of every American go with the special athletes of
Special Olympics, now and always.
The Congress, by Senate Joint Resolution 85, has designated the period
beginning August 2, 1987, and ending August 8, 1987, as "International Special
Olympics Week," and August 3, 1987, as "International Special Olympics
Day," and authorized and requested the President to issue a proclamation in
observance of these events.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, RONALD REAGAN, President of the United States of
America, do hereby proclaim the period beginning August 2, 1987, and ending
August 8, 1987, as International Special Olympics Week, and August 3 as
International Special Olympics Day. I invite all Americans to observe this
period with appropriate ceremonies and activities directed toward increasing
public awareness of the needs and the potential of people with handicapping
conditions and developmental disabilities. I further urge all Americans to join
with me in according our fellow citizens with such disabilities the encourage-
ment and opportunities they need to achieve their full potential.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 20th day of July, in
the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and eighty-seven, and of the Independ-
ence of the United States of America the two hundred and twelfth.
Ronald Reagon