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Ronald Reagan Presidential Library
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Collection: Correspondence, White House Office of:
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Folder Title: National Safe Kids Week
Box: 85 (1988)
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THE OF SEAL STATE OF THE UNITED
National Safe Kids Week, 1988
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
During National Safe Kids Week parents, relatives, teachers, and everyone
responsible for the care and safety of children should take notice of the many
ways in which we can help youngsters avoid accidents and grow up safely.
Children themselves should also become increasingly aware of ways to
protect themselves and other young people. Each year accidents take a tragic
toll of perhaps 8,000 young lives lost and 50,000 children disabled. We need to
recall that we can prevent the majority of these incidents-and we need to do
as much as we can about it, in homes, schools, places of work and recreation,
on the highways, and throughout our communities.
Much has been done already. Americans continue to take responsibility by
exercising extra care around the house, as well as by using items such as
infant and toddler car seats and seat belts, smoke detectors, flame-retardant
clothing, and child-proof packaging; and emergency medical services are
developing still greater capacities in the prevention of death and of serious
aftereffects of injury.
As more and more of us understand that accidental injuries are avoidable, and
as we act accordingly, we will substantially reduce this major source of death,
disability, and injury to our hope for the future-our "safe kids." That is a goal
to which we can all look forward.
The Congress, by Senate Joint Resolution 240, has designated the period of
May 16 through May 22, 1988, as "National Safe Kids Week" and authorized
and requested the President to issue a proclamation in observance of this
event.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, RONALD REAGAN, President of the United States of
America, do hereby proclaim the period of May 16 through May 22, 1988, as
National Safe Kids Week. I call upon the people of the United States to
observe this week with appropriate ceremonies and activities.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this thirteenth day of
May, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and eighty-eight, and of the
Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and twelfth.
Ronald Reagan