    [Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 29, Number 3 (Monday, January 25, 1993)]
    [Page 82]
    [Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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    Proclamation 6525--National Day of Fellowship and Hope

     January 20, 1993

    By the President of the United States

    of America

    A Proclamation

        As I assume the office of President, I stand humbly before God and
    ask for His guidance and blessings for our great Nation. At the same
    time, I ask the citizens of America to join me in renewing our
    commitment to the American ideals of fellowship and hope.
        The obligation of a President is more than the fulfillment of a set
    of constitutional duties. The President must carry the mantle of hope
    and optimism in the battle against fear and despair. I ask that every
    American help as we attempt, in the words of the Reverend Martin Luther
    King, Jr., ``to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope'' and
    ``transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful
    symphony of brotherhood.''
        We must always remember that the essence of our democracy is the
    recognition that we are united in a common purpose, working toward a
    common good.
        In renewing our commitment to fellowship throughout our great
    Nation, we recall the spirit of Thomas Jefferson, who said on the
    occasion of his first inaugural address, ``Let us, then, fellow
    citizens, unite with one heart and one mind. Let us restore to social
    intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty and even
    life itself are but dreary things.''
        Now, Therefore, I, William J. Clinton, President of the United
    States of America, by the authority vested in me by the Constitution and
    laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim January 22, 1993, a
    National Day of Fellowship and Hope and call upon the citizens of this
    great Nation to reflect on their obligations to their fellow Americans
    and look forward to the challenges of the new year with a spirit of
    hope.
        In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this twentieth day
    of January, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and ninety-three,
    and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred
    and seventeenth.
                                                William J. Clinton

    [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 11:33 a.m., January 21,
    1993]

    Note: This proclamation was published in the Federal Register on January
    22.