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Digitized from Box 31 of the White House Press Releases at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 21, 1976
Office of the White House Press Secretary
THE WHITE HOUSE
NATIONAL EMPLOY THE HANDICAPPED WEEK, 1976
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION
As we celebrate the two-hundredth anniversary of our
national independence, physically and mentally handicapped
Americans are seeking new opportunities to use their talents,
abilities and experience. Assisting those of our citizens
who are disabled are programs designed to provide equality of
opportunity and equality of education. These programs place
new emphasis on the needs of those with severe disabilities,
and a new and growing consumer movement of and for handicapped
persons.
Our forefathers promised independence and made that
promise a reality. Disabled people now seek fulfillment of
that promise for themselves. We are firm in our resolve to
remove those barriers which still prevent handicapped citizens
from making their full contribution to the Nation's economic
and social health.
Next spring the White House Conference on Handicapped
Individuals will serve to stimulate a national assessment of
problems facing individuals with handicaps and to develop
recommendations to solve those problems.
In order to enlist support for an interest in the employ-
ment of otherwise qualified but handicapped persons, the
Congress, by joint resolution of August 11, 1945, as amended
(36 U.S.C. 155), has called for the designation of the first
week in October of each year as National Employ the Handicapped
Week and has requested the President to issue a proclamation
each year calling for its appropriate observance.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, GERALD R. FORD, President of the
United States of America, do hereby designate the week
beginning October 3, 1976, as National Employ the Handicapped
Week, and call upon the people of the United States to observe
that week with ceremonies designed to elicit recognition and
support for the needs, contributions, and aspirations of
those citizens.
I urge the Nation's Governors, Mayors, and all other
public officials, as well as leaders in every area of
American life, to join with disabled people in active partici-
pation in these activities.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
twenty-first day of September in the year of our Lord
nineteen hundred seventy-six, and of the Independence of the
United States of America the two hundred and first.
GERALD R. FORD
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