[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 12 (Tuesday, January 20, 2004)]
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The President





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Proclamation 7751--Martin Luther King, Jr., Federal Holiday, 2004



Proclamation 7752--National Sanctity of Human Life Day, 2004



Executive Order 13324--Termination of Emergency With Respect to Sierra 
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                Proclamation 7751 of January 15, 2004

                
Martin Luther King, Jr., Federal Holiday, 2004

                By the President of the United States of America

                A Proclamation

                On the Martin Luther King, Jr., Federal Holiday, our 
                Nation honors an American who dedicated his life to the 
                fundamental principles of freedom, opportunity, and 
                equal justice for all. Today, all Americans benefit 
                from Dr. King's work and his legacy of courage, 
                dignity, and moral clarity.

                Forty years ago this past August, on the steps of the 
                Lincoln Memorial, Dr. King spoke passionately of his 
                dream for America. He dreamed of an America where all 
                citizens would be judged by the content of their 
                character and not by the color of their skin. He 
                dreamed of an America where all would enjoy the riches 
                of freedom and the security of justice. He dreamed of 
                an America where the doors of opportunity would be open 
                to all of God's children.

                Dr. King's leadership moved Americans to examine our 
                hearts--to reject what he called the ``tranquilizing 
                drug of gradualism'' on the path to racial justice--and 
                to live up to the ideals of our Constitution and 
                Declaration of Independence. America has come far in 
                realizing Dr. King's dream, but there is still work to 
                be done. In remembering Dr. King's vision and life of 
                service, we renew our commitment to guaranteeing the 
                unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of 
                happiness for all Americans.

                NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE W. BUSH, 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 Monday, January 19, 2004, as 
                the Martin Luther King, Jr., Federal Holiday. I 
                encourage all Americans to observe this day with 
                appropriate activities and programs that honor the 
                memory and legacy of Dr. King.

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

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