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    "ocrText": "one\nEarth Week, 1976\nBy the President of the United States of America\nA Proclamation\nIn this Bicentennial Year, we should give special recognition to the legacy of\nnature as well as to that of history. America's mountains, prairies, woodlands, and\nwaterways are natural wonders of breathtaking beauty, and they provide resources for\ntrade and transportation, human welfare and recreation. These resources are not ours\nto abuse. We hold them in trust for posterity.\nIn recent years, we have learned that our past progress was often made without\nsufficient regard for the long-term consequences to our natural environment. To meet\nthis environmental challenge, we have enacted more than a dozen significant national\nenvironmental laws. Their results are encouraging; we are beginning to bring our most\nchronic sources of water pollution under control, and we are improving the quality of\nthe air and the richness of our land.\nMuch remains to be done, but steady long-range progress can only be sustained by\ncontinuous effort. Active interest by all Americans is the only force that can translate\nenvironmental policy into environmental progress.\nOur environment is the responsibility not only of government and business, but it\nmust also be a matter of daily concern to every American.\nNOW, THEREFORE, I, GERALD R. FORD, President of the United States of\nAmerica, do hereby designate the week beginning Thursday, April 22, 1976, to\nWednesday, April 28, 1976, as Earth Week.\nI call upon government officials at all levels to observe this week with appropriate\nactivities, and I call upon civic organizations and businesses to make at least one new\neffort during this week for a cleaner, safer, healthier environment.\nAnd I urge each American to devote one day during this week to a significant\nactivity which improves our environment,\nIN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twentieth day of\nApril, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred seventy-six, and of the Independence\nof the United States of America the two hundredth.\nGerall R. Ford"
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