[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 31, Number 32 (Monday, August 14, 1995)]
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[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Proclamation 6815--Minority Enterprise Development Week, 1995

August 7, 1995

By the President of the United States

of America

A Proclamation

    For citizens throughout the Nation, entrepreneurship is a proven 
gateway to economic empowerment. At its best, our free enterprise system 
works to ensure that all of our citizens have the opportunity to 
contribute fully to America's economic growth and to benefit fully from 
our economy's success. However, the road to entrepreneurial achievement 
is seldom easy. Those who undertake the journey must be talented, 
determined, and brave. But America has a history of rewarding risk-
takers, and there is much to be gained in the attempt.
    If this country is to continue to prosper in the years ahead, we 
must hold fast to the promise of minority enterprise development. 
Business growth in our minority communities creates wealth, encourages 
self-sufficiency, and generates jobs where they are needed. My 
Administration is working hard to strengthen all of our Nation's 
businesses, opening new domestic and international markets, stimulating 
the efficient use of developed but underutilized land in older cities 
and towns, and reducing the cost of borrowing for business start-ups and 
expansions. These innovative efforts are making an impact, and people 
throughout America are stepping forward to take advantage of the 
possibilities of investment.
    This week plays an important part in our work to promote the growth 
of the minority business community. As we recognize America's 
outstanding minority business men and women, we honor their 
accomplishments and help spur them on to greater heights. Highlighting 
their success, this occasion touches even those who have not yet dreamed 
of starting their own businesses. We are all inspired by the example our 
entrepreneurs have set.
    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 September 
24 through September 30, 1995, as ``Minority Enterprise Development 
Week.'' I call on all Americans to commemorate this event with 
appropriate ceremonies and activities, joining together to recognize the 
contributions that minority entrepreneurs make every day to our national 
economic security.
    In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this seventh day of 
August, 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 
twentieth.
                                            William J. Clinton

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 10:10 a.m., August 8, 
1995]

Note: This proclamation was published in the Federal Register on August 
9.