[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 41, Number 16 (Monday, April 25, 2005)]
[Pages 633-634]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Proclamation 7888--Education and Sharing Day, U.S.A., 2005

 April 19, 2005

 By the President of the United States

 of America

 A Proclamation

    As we enjoy the great freedoms of our country, we are mindful of our 
obligation to pass on to our children the values that sustain our 
liberty and our democracy. On Education and Sharing Day, we reaffirm our 
commitment to teach young people the lessons they need to preserve and 
strengthen our Nation, and to reach as far as their vision and character 
can take them.
    Education and Sharing Day honors the memory of Rabbi Menachem Mendel 
Schneerson, the Lubavitcher Rebbe, who established education and 
outreach centers that offer social services and humanitarian aid around 
the world. Commemorating his life and legacy teaches the next generation 
that a single life of conscience and purpose can touch and lift up many 
lives. By helping to heal a broken heart, surrounding a friend with 
love, feeding the hungry, or providing shelter for the homeless, we can 
change America for the better, one heart, one soul, and one conscience 
at a time.
    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 April 20, 2005, as 
Education and Sharing Day, U.S.A. I call upon all our citizens to 
dedicate their time and talents to help our rising generation grow into 
caring and responsible adults.
    In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this nineteenth day 
of April, in the year of our Lord two thousand five, and of

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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, 8:45 a.m., April 20, 
2005]

Note: This proclamation was published in the Federal Register on April 
21.