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THE UNITED
THE
OF
SEAL
STATES
Minority Enterprise Development Week, 1986
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
America is a land of expanding economic opportunity in which each and
every person can play a part based on talent and initiative. The openness and
flexibility of our free market economy makes it unique among the countries of
the world.
The spirit of our democracy affirms that unhindered opportunity for all
Americans is essential to our economic well-being. That our citizens should be
judged on the content of their character and be able to advance according to
merit and achievement is an economic as well as a moral imperative.
To remain the leader in bringing new products and services to the market-
place, and to successfully compete with products made abroad, we must do
everything in our power to continue providing the widest possible economic
opportunity for all Americans. We must also continue expanding opportunities
to ensure strong growth for minority businesses. These businesses are adding
jobs to industries that only a few years ago barely existed. The many
contributions made by these companies will help generate the managerial and
technological developments and the skilled and experienced work force nec-
essary to strengthen and build the American economy in an era of vigorous
international competition.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, RONALD REAGAN, President of the United States of
America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the
laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim the week of October 5 through
October 11, 1986, as Minority Enterprise Development Week, and I call upon
all Americans to join together with minority business enterprises across the
country in appropriate observances.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this first day of July, in
the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and eighty-six, and of the Independence
of the United States of America the two hundred and tenth.
Ronald Reagan