[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 226 (Thursday, November 21, 1996)]
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The President





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Proclamation 6956--National Family Week, 1996
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                Proclamation 6956 of November 19, 1996

                
National Family Week, 1996

                By the President of the United States of America

                A Proclamation

                Our families are among the great blessings we 
                acknowledge each year at Thanksgiving.

                The influence of the family is profound. Families 
                provide essential nurturing and unconditional love; 
                share their values, wisdom, and religious convictions; 
                and give their members the hope and self-confidence 
                they need to succeed. They form the foundation from 
                which our Nation draws its strength and upon which we 
                build our national character.

                If our country is to succeed in the 21st century and 
                beyond, we must commit ourselves now to ensuring the 
                health and well-being of the American family. Parents, 
                educators, business, religious, and community leaders 
                must work together to strengthen our Nation's families. 
                Government policies at the Federal, State, and local 
                levels must support families with compassion and a 
                willingness to give all Americans the tools they need 
                to make the most of their own lives.

                We must create economic opportunity so that hardworking 
                parents can provide for their children and succeed both 
                at work and at home. We must give our families safe 
                neighborhoods in which to grow, free from guns and 
                gangs, drugs and violence. We must reinforce parents' 
                efforts to set a good example by helping to protect 
                their children from the corrosive influences of alcohol 
                and tobacco and to limit their exposure to explicit 
                sexuality and violence in the entertainment media.

                In doing so, we will reaffirm the vital lessons of 
                love, responsibility, and compassion that so many of us 
                have been fortunate to learn in our own families, and 
                ensure that those lessons are passed on to the 
                generations to come.

                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 November 24 through November 
                30, 1996, as National Family Week. I call upon all 
                Americans to celebrate our Nation's families with 
                appropriate ceremonies and activities.

                IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 
                nineteenth day of November, in the year of our Lord 
                nineteen hundred and ninety-six, and of the 
                Independence of the United States of America the two 
                hundred and twenty-first.

                    (Presidential Sig.)

[FR Doc. 96-30000
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