[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 29, Number 19 (Monday, May 17, 1993)]
[Pages 865-866]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Proclamation 6561--Small Business Week, 1993

 May 14, 1993

By the President of the United States

of America

A Proclamation

    Over 200 years ago, the Constitutional Convention gave America the 
foundation of our great civil and human rights, as well as our 
commercial rights. By freeing commerce from the fetters of mercantilism, 
our Founding Fathers released the creativity and entrepreneurial spirit 
of the American people. Small merchants and businessmen provided the 
simple beginnings of what has become a vast and innovative economy. 
Since 1789, it has become abundantly clear that for our Nation to 
flourish, small businesses must continue to succeed and prosper.
    Small businesses create two-thirds of all the new jobs in the United 
States, putting the American Dream within reach of hundreds of thousands 
of men and women of all backgrounds. Small businesses generate more than 
57 percent of all sales and half

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of the domestic private sector output. Thousands of our Nation's most 
innovative companies and most nimble competitors come from the ranks of 
small businesses. And often, whole new industries are created when 
entrepreneurs found new companies to bring new products and services to 
market. The drive that is required to begin and run a small business 
illustrates the determination, hard work, and community involvement that 
are so essential to our free enterprise system.
    We must recognize these contributions and help small business help 
the country, creating jobs and wealth. Those willing to take risks must 
be rewarded; government must implement sensible regulations and attack 
the enormous costs of health care that stifle the growth of so many 
American companies. America must continue to be a fertile land for 
industry.
    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 laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim the week 
of May 9 through May 15, 1993, as the 30th ``Small Business Week,'' and 
I call on every American to join me in recognizing the importance and 
contributions of small businesses across the Nation.
    In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this fourteenth day 
of May, 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, 4:42 p.m., May 14, 1993]

Note: This proclamation will be published in the Federal Register on May 
18.