[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 135 (Thursday, July 13, 2000)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 43673-43675]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-17979]



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Part VII





The President





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Proclamation 7329--President Lincoln and Soldiers' Home National 
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                Proclamation 7329 of July 7, 2000

                
President Lincoln and Soldiers' Home National 
                Monument

                By the President of the United States of America

                A Proclamation

                Each year from 1862 through 1864, President Abraham 
                Lincoln and his family left the White House to take up 
                residence during the warm weather months at Anderson 
                Cottage, a home in northwest Washington, D.C., on the 
                grounds of a site then known as the Soldiers' Home. It 
                is estimated that President Lincoln spent one quarter 
                of his presidency at this home, riding out to it many 
                evenings from late June until early November. The house 
                and surrounding land are now part of the U.S. Soldiers' 
                and Airmen's Home, a component of the Armed Forces 
                Retirement Home, an independent establishment in the 
                executive branch. This house and its grounds are 
                objects of great historic significance and interest.

                It was here, in September of 1862, that President 
                Lincoln completed the drafting of the Emancipation 
                Proclamation. His second floor bedroom and much of the 
                rest of the house are configured as they were when he 
                was in residence, and original mantels, woodwork, and 
                windows are retained. A magnificent copper beech tree 
                under which he read and relaxed is still growing at the 
                site. It was also from this house that, in July of 
                1864, he traveled 2 miles north to view the battle of 
                Fort Stevens, during which he actually came under fire 
                as he stood beside the Union troops defending the 
                capital. The house has been designated a National 
                Historic Landmark by the National Park Service.

                The land was purchased by the Federal Government 
                through the Soldiers' Home Trust Fund in 1851 to 
                establish a home for invalid and disabled soldiers of 
                the U.S. Army, the first such attempt to provide for 
                members of the regular army. The house was first used 
                as a summer retreat by President Buchanan from 1857 to 
                1860, and continued to be used as such by several 
                presidents, including President Hayes from 1877 to 1880 
                and President Arthur from 1882 to 1884. It became known 
                as Anderson Cottage in honor of Major Robert Anderson, 
                the Union commanding officer at Fort Sumter at the 
                outbreak of the Civil War.

                Section 2 of the Act of June 8, 1906 (34 Stat. 225, 16 
                U.S.C. 431), authorizes the President, in his 
                discretion, to declare by public proclamation historic 
                landmarks, historic and prehistoric structures, and 
                other objects of historic or scientific interest that 
                are situated upon the lands owned or controlled by the 
                Government of the United States to be national 
                monuments, and to reserve as a part thereof parcels of 
                lands, the limits of which in all cases shall be 
                confined to the smallest area compatible with the 
                proper care and management of the objects to be 
                protected.

                WHEREAS it appears that it would be in the public 
                interest to reserve such lands as a national monument 
                to be known as the President Lincoln and Soldiers' Home 
                National Monument:

                NOW, THEREFORE, I, William J. Clinton, President of the 
                United States of America, by the authority vested in me 
                by section 2 of the Act of June 8, 1906 (34 Stat. 225, 
                16 U.S.C. 431), do proclaim that there are hereby set 
                apart and reserved as the President Lincoln and 
                Soldiers' Home National Monument for the purpose of 
                protecting the objects identified above, all lands and 
                interests in lands owned or controlled by the United

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                States within the boundaries of the area described on 
                the map entitled ``President Lincoln and Soldiers' Home 
                National Monument'' attached to and forming a part of 
                this proclamation. The Federal land and interests in 
                land reserved consist of approximately 2.3 acres, which 
                is the smallest area compatible with the proper care 
                and management of the objects to be protected.

                All Federal lands and interests in lands within the 
                boundaries of this monument are hereby appropriated and 
                withdrawn from all forms of entry, location, selection, 
                sale, or leasing or other disposition under the public 
                land or other Federal laws, including but not limited 
                to withdrawal from location, entry, and patent under 
                the mining laws, and from disposition under all laws 
                relating to mineral and geothermal leasing.

                The monument historically has been a part of the U.S. 
                Soldiers' and Airmen's Home, a facility administered by 
                the Armed Forces Retirement Home, an independent 
                establishment of the Executive Branch. The Armed Forces 
                Retirement Home, through the U.S. Soldiers' and 
                Airmen's Home, shall manage the monument as an integral 
                part of that surrounding facility and consistent with 
                the purposes and provisions of this proclamation. In 
                managing the monument, the Armed Forces Retirement Home 
                shall consult with the Secretary of the Interior 
                through the National Park Service.

                For the purpose of preserving, restoring, and enhancing 
                the public's appreciation of the monument, the Armed 
                Forces Retirement Home shall prepare, in consultation 
                with the Secretary of the Interior through the National 
                Park Service, a management plan for this monument 
                within 3 years of this date. Further, to the extent 
                authorized, the Armed Forces Retirement Home shall 
                promulgate, in consultation with the Secretary of the 
                Interior through the National Park Service, regulations 
                for the proper care and management of the objects 
                identified above.

                Nothing in this proclamation shall be deemed to revoke 
                any existing withdrawal, reservation, or appropriation; 
                however, the national monument shall be the dominant 
                reservation. Warning is hereby given to all 
                unauthorized persons not to appropriate, injure, 
                destroy, or remove any feature of this monument and not 
                to locate or settle upon any of the lands thereof.

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

                    (Presidential Sig.)

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