[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 31, Number 16 (Monday, April 24, 1995)]
[Page 671]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Proclamation 6787--National D.A.R.E. Day, 1995

April 20, 1995

By the President of the United States

of America

A Proclamation

    Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.) is America's largest and 
most effective drug-use prevention program. Reaching 25.5 million young 
people, from kindergarten through 12th grade, its precepts are taught in 
more than 250,000 classrooms in all 50 States and many other lands 
worldwide.
     D.A.R.E. was designed to help prevent the substance abuse and 
violence that plague too many of our Nation's children. Teaching 
conflict resolution and anger management skills, providing accurate 
information about alcohol, drugs, and tobacco, and educating students 
about the consequences of their behavior, D.A.R.E. has served to 
increase self-esteem among our youth and give them the tools they need 
to resist destructive peer pressure.
     Today, people everywhere recognize that empowering kids and teens 
with sound advice is important, but it is not enough. Parents and 
teachers, counselors and concerned citizens all must play a role in 
encouraging our young people to lead safe, productive, drug-free lives. 
That is why D.A.R.E. is taught by veteran police officers, whose 
knowledge and skills have prepared them to understand the reality of the 
streets and the lives of children in need. D.A.R.E. demonstrates that, 
working together, communities have the power within themselves to keep 
the American Dream alive for all of us.
     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 April 20, 
1995, as ``National D.A.R.E. Day.'' I encourage parents, teachers, and 
children across the country to join in observing this day with 
appropriate programs and activities.
    In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this twentieth day 
of April, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and ninety-five, and 
of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and 
nineteenth.
                                            William J. Clinton

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 3:05 p.m., April 20, 
1995]

Note: This proclamation was published in the Federal Register on April 
24.