    [Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 41, Number 9 (Monday, March 7, 2005)]
    [Pages 351-352]
    [Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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    Proclamation 7872--Women's History Month, 2005

     March 2, 2005

     By the President of the United States

     of America

     A Proclamation

        During Women's History Month, we celebrate the achievements of our
    Nation's women. For generations, American women have helped build our
    great Nation through their leadership as writers, teachers, artists,
    politicians, doctors, and scientists, and in other professions. As
    mothers, daughters, and sisters, women have supported and strengthened
    American families and communities. Women are at the forefront of
    entrepreneurship in America, creating millions of new jobs and helping
    to build our Nation's economic prosperity.
        We celebrate those who have broken down barriers for women, such as
    Jacqueline Cochran, who was the founder and director of the Women's Air
    Force Service Pilots during World War II and the first woman to break
    the sound barrier. Gerty Theresa Radnitz Cori was the first American
    woman to receive a Nobel Prize in the sciences, and her research
    significantly advanced the treatment of diabetes. In 1926, Olympic Gold
    Medalist Gertrude Ederle became the first woman to swim the English
    Channel. Marian Anderson, a Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient,
    opened doors in music as the first African American to perform with the
    New York Metropolitan Opera. Juliette Gordon Low encouraged community
    service and the physical, mental, and spiritual development of America's
    young women as founder of the Girl Scouts of the United States of
    America. As we work to advance freedom and peace and fight the war on
    terror, American women

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    in uniform are serving at posts at home and across the world, taking
    great risks as they make our Nation more secure.
        As we commemorate Women's History Month, I encourage all Americans
    to celebrate the extraordinary contributions and accomplishments of
    American women and to continue our progress in making our society more
    prosperous, just, and equal.
        Now, Therefore, I, George W. Bush, 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 March 2005 as Women's
    History Month. I call upon the people of the United States to observe
    this month with appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities that
    honor the history, accomplishments, and contributions of American women.
        In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this second day of
    March, in the year of our Lord two thousand five, and of the
    Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and twenty-
    ninth.
                                                    George W. Bush

     [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 9:22 a.m., March 3,
    2005]

    Note: This proclamation was published in the Federal Register on March
    4.