Proclamation 6289.
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105 STAT. 2552 Proclamation 6289 of May 7, 1991 Small Business Week, 1991 By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation The freedom we celebrate during this 200th year of our Bill of Rights has enabled the United States to become a strong and prosperous Nation. Able to enjoy the unfettered “pursuit of Happiness” and allowed to reap the fruits of our labor, we Americans have achieved unparalleled levels of innovation and productivity. This week we honor in a special way America’s small business men and women—courageous, hardworking individuals who have taken advantage of our Nation’s free enterprise system and helped to show that this is, indeed, a land of liberty and opportunity for all.
Each day America’s small business man and women help to lead the way in the development of new technology and products and in the improvement of existing goods and services. These industrious leaders also help to create jobs and opportunities for millions of their fellow citizens while promoting the economic development of their communities. In so doing, they demonstrate that individual initiative and private enterprise are keys to advancement for both individuals and nations.
Driven by more than 20 million small businesses. America’s thriving free enterprise system serves as a model for the world. Indeed, as nations in Eastern Europe and elsewhere move to restructure their economies—an immense task that will entail many challenges—America’s small businesses provide an inspiring example of free market principles in action. Our Nation’s entrepreneurs understand the risks and challenges faced by business owners in a market-driven economy, but they also appreciate the rewards of taking an idea and making it work, creating jobs and meeting a payroll, and contributing to one’s community.
Today many small business owners contribute to their communities not only through their day-to-day activities but also through corporate philanthropy and voluntary service. Demonstrating that good citizenship is good business, many small business owners and their employees are reaching out to persons in need of a helping hand. These entrepreneurs are among the points of light that reflect our Nation’s conscience and illuminate its social landscape. Because small businesses enrich our lives in so many ways, because their owners and employees have a vital role to play in keeping America competitive, we must continue working to maintain a business climate that is conducive to their success.
Doing so will require eliminating government regulations wherever they are counterproductive, offering incentives for investment, and reducing the tax rate on long-term capital gains. It will also require that we continue working for a level playing field in the international marketplace, eliminating barriers to the free flow of goods and services around the world. As they have demonstrated time and again, when given the freedom and the opportunity to put their talent and ideas to work, America’s small business men and women not only succeed, they excel. 105 STAT. 2553 NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE 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 the week of May 5 through May 11, 1981, as Small Business Week.
I urge all Americans to join me in saluting our Nation’s small business men and women by observing that week with appropriate ceremonies and activities. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this seventh day of May, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and ninety-one, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and fifteenth. GEORGE BUSH 6290 May 10, 1991 Infant Mortality Awareness Day, 1991 Digitization Vendor By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation Proclamation 6290 of May 10, 1991 Infant Mortality Awareness Day, 1991 By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation In the past, this Nation’s high rate of infant mortality has stood in tragic contradiction to our enviably high standard of living and to our traditional reverence for human life.
Fortunately, however, that unconscionable trend is changing. According to the Department of Health and Human Services, preliminary data indicate that the United States infant mortality rate in 1990 was 9.1 deaths per 1,000 live births—the lowest ever recorded and a substantial reduction over the past decade. The infant mortality rate is affected by a number of different factors, including the failure of many pregnant women to obtain adequate prenatal care. Although the government cannot fulfill the primary responsibility of parents in caring for their children, public officials at the Federal, State, and local levels have been working together with health care providers and other concerned Americans to help expectant mothers protect the lives of their unborn children through proper nutrition and prenatal care.
Advances in science and technology have enabled us to see how such behaviors as substance abuse and smoking can lead to low birth weights, disability, chronic illness, and early susceptibility to death among infants. Advances in science have also enabled us to save the lives of babies who are born prematurely or who develop dangerous conditions while still in the womb. In an effort to bring this information to pregnant women and to cut existing rates of infant mortality by half in 10 high-risk areas within 5 years, we have launched a national campaign against infant mortality.
This includes the “Healthy Start” program, a pilot project that will bring early prenatal care to thousands of low-income mothers while helping to identify which government programs work best. Each and every human life is precious, and every one deserves care and protection. On this occasion let us renew our determination to ensure that every child in America receives the best possible start in life, beginning with quality prenatal care throughout pregnancy for expectant mothers. 105 STAT. 2554 The Congress, by House Joint Resolution 194, has designated May 12, 1991, as “Infant Mortality Awareness Day” and has authorized and requested the President to issue a proclamation in observance of this day.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE BUSH, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim May 12, 1991, as Infant Mortality Awareness Day. I urge all Americans to observe this day with appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this tenth day of May, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and ninety-one. and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and fifteenth. GEORGE BUSH 6291 May 13, 1991 World Trade Week, 1991 Digitization Vendor By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation Proclamation 6291 of May 13, 1991 World Trade Week, 1991 By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation International trade benefits all who participate.
An expansion in trade promotes worldwide prosperity by increasing production and creating jobs. Open markets and the free movement of goods, services, and capital across international borders are vital to economic growth. Free trade fosters more efficient use of the world’s resources, higher real wages for both American and foreign workers, and the production of a wider variety of more affordable, high quality goods for our consumers. Although the United States, working in concert with other nations, has made progress in dismantling trade barriers, we are still trying to achieve the ideal of free and fair trade.
Toward that end, we are striving to bring the Uruguay Round of trade negotiations to a successful conclusion. We are also working to forge a North American Free Trade Agreement, which would establish the largest integrated market on earth—a market of 360 million consumers and an estimated $6 trillion in annual output. Vital to these efforts—and to the success of the Enterprise for the Americas Initiative—is the extension of fast track procedures. Here at home we see convincing evidence that expanded trade strengthens the economy, thereby creating opportunities for individuals.
During the past 5 years, exports have accounted for more than 40 percent of all growth in the U.S. economy. Last year exports supported more than 7 million jobs. Thus, it is fitting that the theme of this year’s World Trade Week be “Exports: Generating Jobs for Americans.” Indeed, export expansion is perhaps the most effective jobs program that our Nation can establish today. The triumph of democratic ideals and free market principles in more and more nations around the world has created unprecedented opportunities for American businesspeople and farmers to expand sales 105 STAT. 2555overseas.
To take advantage of these new export opportunities, Americans must do what we do best: apply our manufacturing ingenuity, our commitment to service and to the customer, and our expert salesmanship to the challenge of opening new markets abroad. To meet foreign competition, we must redouble our commitment to quality, so that the phrase “Made in America” is automatically associated with “Best in the World.” The United States Government stands ready to help. We are committed to eliminating foreign trade barriers and to opening new markets for American goods, services, investment, and ideas.
We have placed a high priority on programs that are designed to provide American business exporters with information and counseling that will assist them in selling overseas. By expanding exports, members of American business and industry will not only increase their profits and their employment rolls but also contribute to improved standards of living for millions of people around the world. The message of World Trade Week, 1991, is that exports and open markets are vital to future U.S. economic growth.
It is a message not just for this week but for every week of the year. NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE 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 the week of May 19 through May 25, 1991, as World Trade Week. I urge all Americans to observe this week with appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this thirteenth day of May, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and ninety-one, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and fifteenth.
GEORGE BUSH 6292 May 14, 1991 Prayer For Peace, Memorial Day, 1991 Digitization Vendor By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation Proclamation 6292 of May 14, 1991 Prayer For Peace, Memorial Day, 1991 By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation “What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly,” Thomas Paine wrote in 1776, “it is dearness only that gives everything its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods, and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated.
” The war in the Persian Gulf has reminded all Americans of the value of freedom and the price that many brave men and women have been willing to bear for its sake. Neither “summer soldiers” nor “sunshine patriots.” the members of Operation Desert Storm did not shrink from service to their country when the dark clouds of armed conflict gathered in the Persian Gulf, and, like the early patriots of whom Thomas Paine wrote, they deserve our respect and thanks. Those who made the ultimate sacrifice in the effort to liberate Kuwait joined a long line of heroes who have given their lives for our country, 105 STAT. 2556and on Memorial Day we remember all of them with solemn pride and heartfelt appreciation.
Whether we engage in quiet prayer or in public ceremony, whether we remember loved ones and neighbors or heroes known only to God, all Americans are united on this day in thanksgiving for the blessings of liberty and for the brave and selfless individuals who have helped to secure them. The sacrifices of those who fell in the Persian Gulf are a fresh and vivid memory, but on this occasion we also remember those who died while serving in places such as Panama, Grenada, Beirut, Korea, and Vietnam.
We also honor with undiminished pride and gratitude those who served decades ago, during World Wars I and n. On Memorial Day, we echo in prayer the fervent hope that these Americans expressed with their very lives: the hope for lasting peace among nations. Knowing that any peace purchased by the surrender of principle can be neither genuine nor enduring, we pray for wisdom and resolve in our efforts to avert future conflicts and to establish a new world order based on respect for human rights and the rule of law.
Knowing too that our freedom has been obtained at a very high cost, we also pray that we might remain a people worthy of so precious a gift. Declaring that “the times that try men’s souls are over,” Thomas Paine wrote: “The world has seen [America] great in adversity . . . and rising in resolve as the storm increased . . . . Let the world then see that she can bear prosperity and that her honest virtue in time of peace is equal to the bravest virtue in time of war.” In recognition of those Americans to whom we pay tribute today, the Congress, by a joint resolution approved on May 11, 1950 (64 Stat. 158), has requested the President to issue a proclamation calling upon the people of the United States to observe each Memorial Day as a day of prayer for permanent peace and designating a period on that day when the people of the United States might unite in prayer.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE BUSH, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate Memorial Day, May 27, 1991, as a day of prayer for permanent peace, and I designate the hour beginning in each locality at 11 o’clock in the morning of that day as a time to unite in prayer. I urge the members of the media to cooperate in this observance. I also request the Governors of the United States and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the appropriate officials of all units of government. to direct that the flag be flown at half-staff until noon during this Memorial Day on all buildings, grounds, and naval vessels throughout the United States and in all areas under its jurisdiction and control, and I request the people of the United States to display the flag at half-staff from their homes for the customary forenoon period.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this fourteenth day of May. in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and ninety-one, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and fifteenth. GEORGE BUSH 6293 May 15, 1991 Emergency Medical Services Week, 1991 and 1992 Digitization Vendor By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation
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