[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 226 (Wednesday, November 22, 2000)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 70275-70276]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-30022]


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                Proclamation 7380 of November 17, 2000

                
National Family Week, 2000

                By the President of the United States of America

                A Proclamation

                Our families are perhaps the strongest influence in our 
                lives. Anyone who grows up in a strong, nurturing 
                family, grounded in the values of love and 
                responsibility, will have a distinct advantage in 
                achieving the most important tasks of adulthood--living 
                fully, working productively, contributing to society, 
                and forming one's own strong, stable family.

                Our Nation, too, draws its strength and character from 
                America's families, so as citizens we must do 
                everything we can to support their well-being and self-
                sufficiency. Over the past 8 years, my Administration 
                has strived to create an economic and social climate 
                where families can flourish. We have strengthened the 
                economy; enacted a higher minimum wage; expanded tax 
                credits for working families; created greater access to 
                higher education, quality health care, and affordable 
                child care; and, with passage of the Family and Medical 
                Leave Act, made it easier for working adults to take 
                leave to care for an ailing family member without 
                putting their jobs at risk. We have also been 
                successful in moving thousands of children from 
                temporary homes in foster care to permanent families 
                where they can grow and flourish.

                We are fortunate to be members of a larger family as 
                well, composed not only of our immediate relatives, but 
                also of our neighbors, colleagues, communities, and 
                fellow citizens. As members of this extended family, we 
                must learn to appreciate the value and diversity of 
                other families' traditions; we must reach out to help 
                those families who are still in need; and we must share 
                responsibility for the care and development of all our 
                Nation's children. In this season of Thanksgiving, let 
                us be grateful for the knowledge that America is a 
                Nation of families, standing together to make our 
                country a better place in which to live and to make the 
                future a brighter one for our children.

                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 the laws of the 
                United States, do hereby proclaim November 19 through 
                November 25, 2000, as National Family Week. I call upon 
                Federal, State, and local officials to honor American 
                families with appropriate programs and activities. I 
                encourage educators, community organizations, and 
                religious leaders to celebrate the strength and values 
                we draw from family relationships, and I urge all the 
                people of the United States to reaffirm their own 
                family ties and to reach out to other families in 
                friendship and goodwill.

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                IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 
                seventeenth day of November, 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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