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Ronald Reagan Presidential Library
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Collection: Correspondence, White House Office of:
Records, 1981-89
Folder Title: National Family Week
Box: 71 (1982)
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THE OF the UNITED
OF
STATES
National Family Week, 1982
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
The family has always been the cornerstone of American society. Our families
nurture, preserve and pass on to each succeeding generation the values we
share and cherish, values that are the foundation for our freedoms. In the
family we learn our first lessons of God and man, love and discipline, rights
and responsibilities, human dignity and human frailty.
Our families give us daily examples of these lessons being put into practice. In
raising and instructing our children; in providing personal and compassionate
care for the elderly; in bringing the handicapped into the mainstream of
community life; in maintaining the spiritual strength of religious commitment
among our people-in these and other ways, America's families make im-
measurable contributions to America's well-being.
Today, more than ever, it is essential that these contributions not be taken for
granted and that each of us remember that the strength of our families is vital
to the strength of our Nation. Recognizing that the family is a national heritage
and resource, the Congress, by Senate Joint Resolution 190, has requested that
the week of November 21 through 27, 1982, be designated as National Family
Week.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, RONALD REAGAN, President of the United States of
America, do hereby proclaim the week of November 21 through 27, 1982, as
National Family Week. I applaud the countless mothers and fathers who have
committed their lives to supporting families, whether by working in the
marketplace to provide financial support or by working in the home to raise
children. I also applaud those who, through adoption and foster care, have
gone the extra mile to provide families for those who otherwise would have
none.
I invite the Governors of the several States, the chief officials of local
governments and all our citizens to observe this week with appropriate
ceremonies and activities. During a week in which we will also observe
Thanksgiving Day, I especially invite all Americans to give thanks for the
family relationships with which we have been blessed.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 12th day of Nov.,
in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and eighty-two, and of the Independ-
ence of the United States of America the two hundred and seventh.
Ronald Reagan