[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 201 (Wednesday, October 18, 1995)]
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The President





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Proclamation 6841--National Character Counts Week, 1995



Proclamation 6842--National Forest Products Week, 1995
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                Proclamation 6841 of October 14, 1995

                
National Character Counts Week, 1995

                By the President of the United States of America

                A Proclamation

                The children of today will be tomorrow's leaders, 
                educators, caregivers, and parents. As we seek to 
                prepare our Nation for the challenges of the future, we 
                must reaffirm America's deepest beliefs and instill in 
                our youth the principles of opportunity, 
                responsibility, and community that have always united 
                our citizens. Emphasizing both individual and social 
                duties, character education helps us toward that goal 
                and reminds us that our country's strength has long 
                been drawn from fundamental ideas.

                Families have always held the primary obligation for 
                teaching values to their children. Schools, too, play a 
                vital role in reinforcing the basic precepts of good 
                citizenship--fairness and honesty, respect for oneself 
                and for others, and personal accountability. My 
                Administration's education agenda is dedicated to 
                raising standards for academics and discipline so that 
                young people will have the essential tools they need to 
                succeed. Our Goals 2000: Educate America Act embraces 
                the importance of parental involvement in the learning 
                process, recognizing that family participation 
                encourages children to value scholarship and to adopt 
                strong values. Character education programs can 
                increase school performance as well, and the Improving 
                America's Schools Act promotes such initiatives.

                As Americans, we are called upon to fulfill the 
                obligations of citizenship in many ways. As our Nation 
                observes this special week, let us remember our 
                responsibilities to children and do everything in our 
                power to inspire in them the moral and ethical 
                standards that will, in turn, help them to become 
                productive, integral members of our society.

                NOW, THEREFORE, I, WILLIAM J. CLINTON, President of the 
                United States of America, by virtue of the authority 
                vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United 
                States, do hereby proclaim October 15 through October 
                21, 1995, as National Character Counts Week. I call 
                upon government officials; educators; religious, 
                community, and business leaders; and all the people of 
                the United States to work for the preservation of 
                traditional values and to commemorate this week with 
                appropriate ceremonies, activities, and programs.

                IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 
                fourteenth day of October, in the year of our Lord 
                nineteen hundred and ninety-five, and of the 
                Independence of the United States of America the two 
                hundred and twentieth.

                    (Presidential Sig.)

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