[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 30, Number 2 (Monday, January 17, 1994)]
[Pages 52-53]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Proclamation 6647--National Good Teen Day, 1994

January 14, 1994

By the President of the United States

of America

A Proclamation

    There are now more than 24 million young people between the ages of 
13 and 19 in the United States, each of them unique, each with promise, 
each struggling with the complicated transition to adulthood. These 
young people hold the keys to a promising future, and we must help them 
use every available resource to meet the challenges that lie ahead. Few 
generations have been confronted with so much responsibility, yet 
perhaps none has been presented with such exciting opportunities.
    In spite of barriers and stumbling blocks, most teens play by the 
rules as they begin the work of building meaningful lives for themselves 
and finding their places in the community. Most embrace and promote 
fairness and compassion, often championing such precepts when others 
forsake them as unattainable ideals. They work together to diminish 
prejudice and violence; they find joy in family and friends and 
satisfaction in triumph and accomplishment.
    Many teens are heroes who refuse to give up in adversity, to yield 
to temptation, or to give in to the negative influences around them. 
They serve as positive role models to younger children, as leaders to 
their peers, and as inspiration to older generations. They are our 
future, our hope, and a very real joy to those of us who know them well.
    We are justifiably proud of American teens. They deserve our 
recognition and appreciation, and it is fitting that we honor them. Our 
country depends on their energy and dedication. Their knowledge, 
creativity, and dreams can change America for the better.
    The Congress, by House Joint Resolution 75, has designated January 
16, 1994, as ``National Good Teen Day'' and has authorized and requested 
the President to issue a proclamation in observance of this day.
    Now, Therefore, I, William J. Clinton, President of the United 
States of America,

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do hereby proclaim January 16, 1994, as National Good Teen Day. I invite 
the States, communities, and people of the United States to observe this 
day with appropriate ceremonies and programs in appreciation of our 
Nation's teenagers.
    In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this fourteenth day 
of January, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and ninety-four, 
and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred 
and eighteenth.
                                            William J. Clinton

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 1:59 p.m., January 18, 
1994]

Note: This proclamation will be published in the Federal Register on 
January 20.