Proclamation 3716.

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80 Stat. 1777 Proclamation 3716 LOYALTY DAY, 1966 By the President of the United States of America April 12, 1966 A Proclamation Loyalty, like liberty, is more than a word. Both are symbols for deeply felt ideals. Liberty is the symbol for the goal we seek; loyalty is the symbol of our common purpose in its pursuit. The true meaning of loyalty was expressed very early in our history by one of our Founding Fathers, John Jay, who said: “This country and this people seem to have been made for each other, and it appears as if it was the design of Providence, that . . . .

To all general purposes we have uniformly been one people; each individual citizen everywhere enjoying the same national rights, privileges, and protection.” Americans, far more than most, enjoy and cherish the right to dissent and disagree about all our public purposes. Yet our loyalty to the basic ideal of liberty and justice binds us together even in our disagreements. Those ideals and that loyalty have carried us through two world wars. With them as our beacon, we have climbed from the depths of a great depression to a prosperity unparalleled in history.

They have guided us ever closer to the goal of true and equal justice at home, and made us the strong champions of liberty around the globe. At the very founding of our Republic, the signers of the Declaration of Independence pledged to each other their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor. That pledge has been renewed, each in its own time, by every generation of Americans. More than a decade and one-half ago, at a time of trial for our Nation, General Dwight D. Eisenhower defined the ideal of loyalty or patriotism in these words:

“True patriotism places the public good above individual advantage. It is not tainted by false pride in might, and size, and overwhelming power; it never seeks to compel others to blind obedience to our wishes. It is among the greatest of human virtues. Fortunate are we whose devotion is to a country which seeks the good of all its citizens without distinction, that firmly champions the cause of human rights, and offers the hand of friendship to every other nation whose purpose is peace and justice.

” It is that spirit of mutual trust, and loyalty to those ideals, that has brought greatness to our Nation. That greatness will endure only so long as the ideals and the loyalty continue to give it force. Each American has a profound obligation to cherish fully the heritage we have received from our ancestors—and to do his part to preserve that heritage for all our children and our children’s children. In recognition of this duty, the Congress by a joint resolution of July 18, 1958 (72 Stat. 369), designated May 1 of each year as Loyalty [36 USC 162](/us/usc/t36/s162).Day and requested the President to issue a Proclamation inviting the people of the United States to observe each such day with appropriate ceremonies.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, LYNDON B. JOHNSON, President of the United States of America, do call upon the people of the United States, and upon all patriotic, civic, and educational organizations to observe Sunday, May 1, 1966 as Loyalty Day, with appropriate ceremonies in which all of us may join in a reaffirmation of our loyalty to the United States of America. 80 Stat. 1778 I also call upon appropriate officials of the Government to display the flag of the United States on all Government buildings on that day as a manifestation of our loyalty to the Nation which that flag symbolizes.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States of America to be affixed. DONE at the City of Washington this twelfth day of April in the year of our [seal] Lord nineteen hundred and sixty-six, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and ninetieth. Lyndon B. Johnson By the President: Dean Rusk.*Secretary of State.* 3717 April 16, 1966 STATE AND MUNICIPAL BOND WEEK Digitization Vendor By the President of the United States of America Proclamation Proclamation 3717 STATE AND MUNICIPAL BOND WEEK By the President of the United States of America April 16, 1966 A Proclamation Over 70 percent of all Americans now live in urban areas.

These are also the areas which will receive the greatest impact from the growth of our population in the years ahead. By 1975, we will need schools for 10 million additional children, welfare and health facilities for five million more people over the age of 60, and transportation facilities for the daily movement of more than 200 million people. In the remainder of this century—little more than 30 years from now—we will have to build in our cities as much as all we have built since the first colonists arrived in the New World.

Our urban population will double, and the amount of land falling within metropolitan areas will also double. In this short time we must virtually rebuild the entire urban United States. One of the most effective tools for financing such growth is the State or municipal bond issue. State and municipal bonds build hospitals, schools, sanitation facilities, pumping plants for water, roads and bridges—all the many facilities needed to create a wholesome environment for our cities.

These bond issues represent local initiative and local responsibility in meeting pressing community needs. They are in the best tradition of our American system of Government and our American system of enterprise. To create full understanding of the opportunities and benefits to community life which are provided by State and municipal bonds, the *Ante*, p. 120.Congress by a Joint Resolution, approved April 16, 1966, has requested the President to issue a Proclamation designating the week beginning April 17, 1966 as State and Municipal Bond Week.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, LYNDON B. JOHNSON, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim the week beginning April 17, 1966 as State and Municipal Bond Week, in recognition of the role that State and municipal bonds play in building a better community. 80 Stat. 1779 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States of America to be affixed. DONE at the City of Washington this sixteenth day of April in the year of our [seal] Lord nineteen hundred and sixty-six, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and ninetieth.

Lyndon B. Johnson By the President: Dean Rusk.*Secretary of State.* 3718 April 22, 1966 NATIONAL DEFENSE TRANSPORTATION DAY AND NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION WEEK, 1966 Digitization Vendor By the President of the United States of America Proclamation Proclamation 3718 NATIONAL DEFENSE TRANSPORTATION DAY AND NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION WEEK, 1966 By the President of the United States of America April 22, 1966 A Proclamation America’s vast system of transportation is a monument to what free men can achieve in a free and enterprising society.

The United States is the only nation which maintains a system of transport that is both privately-owned and privately-operated. That system has met every challenge, in war as in peace. It was created by farsighted men and private capital. It flourished with the encouragement of their Government. From that partnership has emerged the mighty and far-flung transportation network that gives Americans the greatest mobility ever enjoyed by any nation. In the past 20 years, the number of automobiles and trucks in this vast network has increased threefold, from 31 million to 90 million.

In two decades, our paved roads have grown from 1.5 million miles to twice that much today. Twenty years ago, there were 38,000 private and commercial aircraft in our skies; today there are nearly 100,000. Our inland waterways now carry 150 billion ton miles of freight across the nation every year, and our system of pipelines move 284 billion more. Our railroads have also rejoined the ranks of expanding industries. Since 1961, reversing a period of long decline, railroads have been catching up with the steady and uninterrupted growth of the Nation’s economy.

Today, transportation accounts for one in every five dollars in the American economy. In 1965, that amounted to $120 billion—more than the entire Gross National Product of this Nation in 1940. Yet, great as our transportation system has become, it must grow still faster in the years ahead. Our population is growing. Our economy is expanding. Our trade with other nations continues to increase. And all depend on fast, efficient and safe transportation. During the next two decades, we must prepare to meet a demand for transportation which will be at least twice what is required today. 80 Stat. 1780 A fast, modern, and coordinated transportation network—by land, air, and sea—is also essential to our national defense.

If we are to remain strong, transportation must keep abreast of our ever-changing military technology. [36 USC 160](/us/usc/t36/s160).In recognition of these facts, the Congress, by Senate Joint Resolution 22 of May 16, 1957 (71 Stat. 30), has requested the President to proclaim annually the third Friday of May of each year as National Defense Transportation Day, and by House Joint Resolution 628 of [36 USC 166](/us/usc/t36/s166).May 14, 1962 (76 Stat. 69), has requested the President to proclaim annually the week of May in which that Friday falls as National Transportation Week, as a tribute to the men and women who, night and day, move our goods and our people throughout the land and around the world.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, LYNDON B. JOHNSON, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate Friday, May 20, 1966, as National Defense Transportation Day, and the week beginning May 15, 1966, as National Transportation Week. I urge our people to participate with representatives of the transportation industry, our armed services, and other governmental agencies, in the observance of these occasions through appropriate ceremonies. I also invite the Governors of the States to provide for the observance of National Defense Transportation Day and National Transportation Week in a way that will give the citizens of each community the opportunity to recognize and appreciate fully the vital role our great and modem transportation system plays in their daily lives and in the defense of our Nation.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States of America to be affixed. DONE at the City of Washington this twenty-second day of April in the year [seal] of our Lord nineteen hundred and sixty-six, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and ninetieth. Lyndon B. Johnson By the President: George W. Ball.*Acting Secretary of State.* 3719 April 29, 1966 WORLD TRADE WEEK, 1966 Digitization Vendor By the President of the United States of America Proclamation Proclamation 3719 WORLD TRADE WEEK, 1966 By the President of the United States of America April 29, 1966 A Proclamation Expansion of world trade is the principal objective of the liberal foreign trade policies our Nation has followed for more than thirty years.

This two-way trade between the United States and other nations has resulted in many benefits for our country: 80 Stat. 1781 —It has advanced the peaceful progress of our Nation and the well-being of all Americans by strengthening the growth of private enterprise and employment. —It has provided the American businessman with increased opportunities to export more United States products and services. —It has given the American consumer a wider choice of products at competitive prices. —It has promoted the cause of peace by broadening the scope of our cooperation with other nations. —It has been of great importance in helping the developing nations modernize their economies.

Much remains to be done if we are to achieve a balanced international economy where all nations, developed and developing, can share the fruits of freer trade: —We must continue to work diligently this year to bring the Kennedy Round of trade negotiations to a timely conclusion in a manner that assures the realization of the hopes and expectations with which this great effort at trade liberalization was launched. —We must intensify our efforts to reduce the United States balance-of-payments deficit and reach our goal of equilibrium in our international accounts.

Progress towards accomplishing these objectives is the aim of World Trade Week. NOW, THEREFORE, I, LYNDON B. JOHNSON, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim the week beginning May 22, 1966, as World Trade Week; and I request the appropriate Federal, State, and local officials to cooperate in the observance of that week. I also urge business, labor, agricultural, educational, professional, and civic groups, as well as the people of the United States generally, to observe World Trade Week with gatherings, discussions, exhibits, ceremonies, and other appropriate activities designed to promote continuing awareness of the importance of world trade to our economy and our relations with other nations.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States of America to be affixed. DONE at the City of Washington this 29th day of April in the year of our Lord [seal] nineteen hundred and sixty-six, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and ninetieth. Lyndon B. Johnson By the President: Dean Rusk.*Secretary of State.* 3720 May 3, 1966 COMMEMORATION OF POLAND’S NATIONAL AND CHRISTIAN MILLENNIUM Digitization Vendor By the President of the United States of America Proclamation

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