    [Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 30, Number 19 (Monday, May 16, 1994)]
    [Page 1033]
    [Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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    Proclamation 6687--Older Americans Month, 1994

    May 9, 1994

    By the President of the United States

    of America

    A Proclamation

        Each year over 2 million of us become older Americans--entering a
    time of life that can bring new freedom, new choices, and new
    beginnings. Retirement years offer the freedom to strengthen family
    bonds and to share knowledge and talents with friends and family
    members. It can be a time to engage in cultural, intellectual, and
    recreational activities with others and to provide them with the
    guidance that comes from a lifetime of experience. It can be a time of
    new beginnings--used to pursue a second career, to gain more education,
    or to engage in volunteer work that makes our neighborhoods,
    communities, and the world a better place in which to live.
        To enjoy these opportunities, we must take greater responsibility in
    planning for a long life. Maintaining a healthy lifestyle and staying
    physically fit can help us to make the most of these new freedoms,
    choices, and beginnings. While we in Government work to promote
    universal health care coverage for all Americans, all of us can
    encourage friends and families to pursue daily practices that promote
    physical and mental well-being.
        This year's Older Americans Month celebration centers around the
    theme of long life and good health with the slogan--``Aging: An
    Experience of a Lifetime.'' I am asking all Americans to help make this
    theme a reality by striving to achieve healthy and productive
    lifestyles.
        Each year, we are learning new ways to promote longer, healthier,
    and more rewarding lives. We can do this by learning to eat
    nutritiously, by giving up smoking, by moderating our consumption of
    alcoholic beverages, and by entering into a personal or group fitness
    program. New studies show that regardless of age, it's never too late to
    improve health and vitality.
        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 month
    of May 1994, as Older Americans Month. I call upon individual Americans,
    representatives of government at all levels, businesses, and community,
    volunteer, and educational groups to work to increase opportunities for
    older Americans and to adopt healthier lifestyles.
        In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this ninth day of
    May, 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, 11:02 a.m., May 10,
    1994]

    Note: This proclamation was published in the Federal Register on May 11.