[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 115 (Wednesday, June 14, 2000)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 37263-37264]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-15169]


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 Title 3--
 The President

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                Proclamation 7321 of June 9, 2000

                
Flag Day and National Flag Week, 2000

                By the President of the United States of America

                A Proclamation

                Our long national journey has brought the United States 
                safely to a new century and to a position of 
                unprecedented leadership in the world. Throughout that 
                journey, one symbol has endured as a badge of honor for 
                every American and a beacon of hope for the oppressed: 
                the flag of the United States.

                For more than two centuries, ``Old Glory'' has 
                challenged us to make real the highest ideals of the 
                patriots and visionaries who chose it as our national 
                symbol in the early days of our Republic. The flag of 
                the United States has inspired us in battle, reassured 
                us in times of peace, and comforted us at moments of 
                great national grief. In its white stripes, we 
                recognize the sanctity of the American ideals on which 
                our Republic was founded: liberty, justice, equality, 
                and the guarantee of individual rights. In its red 
                stripes, we salute the generations of American patriots 
                who have shed their blood to keep our flag flying over 
                a free Nation. And in the cluster of white stars on an 
                unchanging blue field, we read the story of America's 
                remarkable evolution from 13 small colonies to 50 great 
                States, with millions of citizens from every race, 
                creed, and country united by the hopes and history we 
                share as Americans.

                To commemorate the adoption of our flag, the Congress, 
                by joint resolution approved August 3, 1949 (63 Stat. 
                492), designated June 14 of each year as ``Flag Day'' 
                and requested the President to issue an annual 
                proclamation calling for a national observance and for 
                the display of the flag of the United States on all 
                Federal Government buildings. In a second joint 
                resolution approved June 9, 1966 (80 Stat. 194), the 
                Congress requested the President also to issue annually 
                a proclamation designating the week during which June 
                14 falls as ``National Flag Week'' and calling upon all 
                citizens of the United States to display the flag 
                during that week.

                NOW, THEREFORE, I, WILLIAM J. CLINTON, President of the 
                United States of America, do hereby proclaim June 14, 
                2000, as Flag Day and the week beginning June 11, 2000, 
                as National Flag Week. I direct the appropriate 
                officials to display the flag on all Federal Government 
                buildings during that week, and I urge all Americans to 
                observe Flag Day and National Flag Week by flying the 
                Stars and Stripes from their homes and other suitable 
                places.

                I also call upon the people of the United States to 
                observe with pride and all due ceremony those days from 
                Flag Day through Independence Day, also set aside by 
                the Congress (89 Stat. 211), as a time to honor our 
                Nation, to celebrate our heritage in public gatherings 
                and activities, and to recite publicly the Pledge of 
                Allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America.

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                IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 
                ninth day of June, in the year of our Lord two 
                thousand, and of the Independence of the United States 
                of America the two hundred and twenty-fourth.

                    (Presidential Sig.)

[FR Doc. 00-15169
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