[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 225 (Tuesday, November 23, 1999)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 66085-66086]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-30685]


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                Proclamation 7253 of November 19, 1999

                
National Family Week, 1999

                By the President of the United States of America

                A Proclamation

                Families are the foundation of our individual lives and 
                the life of our Nation. We turn to our families for the 
                nurturing, guidance, and unconditional love that 
                sustain us; from them we learn the values and 
                convictions that sustain our society.

                I am proud of my Administration's commitment to 
                providing families with the resources they need to 
                flourish. We have strengthened family incomes through 
                the Child Tax Credit and by increasing the minimum wage 
                and expanding the Earned Income Tax Credit, and today 
                the yearly income of a typical American family is 
                higher than it has ever been in our Nation's history. 
                We have opened the doors of higher education by making 
                student loans less expensive and easier to repay and by 
                providing new tax credits and larger Pell Grant 
                scholarships. We are also working to ensure that 
                parents have access to quality and affordable child 
                care for their children. These and other family-
                friendly policies, such as the Family and Medical Leave 
                Act I signed into law in 1993, have helped parents to 
                balance the demands of work and family and have brought 
                increased financial security, expanded opportunity, and 
                renewed hope for the future to families across America.

                As we look to that future, we must not forget our rich 
                history. We are fast approaching the dawn of a new 
                millennium, and my Administration is marking this 
                historic milestone with family-oriented programs that 
                honor the past and imagine the future. Through ``My 
                History is America's History,'' a project sponsored by 
                the White House Millennium Council and the National 
                Endowment for the Humanities, we are encouraging our 
                Nation's families to rediscover America's history by 
                recording and preserving their own stories and passing 
                them on to the next generation. Through remembered 
                conversations, restored photographs, treasured letters, 
                diaries, or other keepsakes, each family can recognize 
                and preserve its part in America's rich and complex 
                story and give a priceless gift to the future.

                As we gather in our homes once again at this time of 
                thanksgiving, let us recognize that the family members 
                who surround us are among the most precious blessings 
                in our lives, and let us pledge to keep their stories 
                alive for the benefit of 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 21 through November 
                27, 1999, as National Family Week. I call upon Federal, 
                State, and local officials to honor American families 
                with appropriate programs and activities, and I urge 
                all the people of the United States to reaffirm their 
                family ties and to share their family histories.

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

                    (Presidential Sig.)

[FR Doc. 99-30685
Filed 11-22-99; 8:45 am]
Billing code 3195-01-P