Proclamation 4129.

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86 Stat. 1631 PROCLAMATION 4129 Senior Citizens Month, 1972May 2, 1972 By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation There are certain landmark years in every individual’s life—memo-rable, significant years of advance and achievement. This year offers promise of becoming a landmark year in the lives of America’s 21 million older citizens. In December 1971, I met with 3500 delegates to the White House Conference on Aging. I told the delegates that I did not want their recommendations to gather dust on storeroom shelves.

And I promised to join them in making 1972 a year of action for older Americans. Since that time, we have been reviewing those recommendations—and a number of action steps have already been taken. For example, we have increased the budget for the Administration on Aging tenfold. I have signed into law a new national nutrition program for older people. We are working to ensure that needed transportation services are included in service projects for the elderly. Programs to involve older people in voluntary service to others are growing.

And we are moving forward with other, earlier efforts—such as our campaign to reform nursing home care and our program to provide hundreds of information centers for older persons at the local level. All of these endeavors complement our basic program for improving the income position of the elderly. If the Congress approves my recommendations for reforming and expanding social security and other income maintenance programs, the income of older Americans would be in-creased by some $5.5 billion annually.

Of course, there is much that remains to be done. One important challenge is to help all our people develop a new attitude toward aging, one which stops regarding older Americans as a burden and starts regarding them as a resource. For such an attitude will not only con-tribute to the dignity of fife for older Americans, it will also give our country the immense benefit of their skills and their wisdom. NOW, THEREFORE, I, RICHARD NIXON, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate May 1972 as Senior Citizens Month.

The theme for this month is ACTION NOW. I urge officials of government at all levels—national, State, and local—and of voluntary organizations and private groups everywhere, to give 86 Stat. 1632special attention during this period to the concerns of the elderly, so that it may truly be a high point in a year of action for older Americans. I also urge each individual American to use this month as a time to make a personal commitment to action on behalf of older people—so that the last years may be among the best years for all of our countrymen.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this second day of May, in the year of our Lord, nineteen hundred seventy-two, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred ninety-sixth. 4130 May 4, 1972 Small Business Week, 1972 Digitization Vendor By The President of the United States of America Proclamation PROCLAMATION 4130 Small Business Week, 1972May 4, 1972 By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation It is no curious accident that from earliest times, the expansion of America’s frontiers was closely paralleled by the robust growth of our Nation’s free enterprise system.

In the footprints of Boone and Carson came a different but no less courageous breed of pioneer: the tradesman and peddler, miller and merchant. As their cabins and trading posts have become towns and cities, their wilderness commerce has become the foundation for the most extraordinary economic force in the history of mankind. It is a force that leaves no idea unexplored, no promise unpursued, no citizen of this land unenriched. Today, we call it small business. There are now more than 8 million small businesses in this country.

An unprecedented 287,000 new companies were incorporated just last year. Nineteen out of every twenty firms are considered small business, and they provide more than 35 million jobs, and contribute more than $370 billion to the gross national product. Small business is the corridor of progress and change for Americans of every nationality and color. It is an arena where the sheer power of individual initiative and self-determination can exact the rewards of participation, achievement, and success.

Small, free, independent enterprise is the heritage of our past and the lifeblood of our future, providing each of our citizens with life’s most prized gift: opportunity. 86 Stat. 1633 NOW, THEREFORE, I, RICHARD NIXON, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate the week beginning May 14, 1972, as Small Business Week. I ask all Americans to share with me during this week a great feeling of pride in the accomplishments of these small businessmen and women, and in their continued commitment to success.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this fourth day of May, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred seventy-two, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred ninety-sixth. 4131 May 5, 1972 Display of the Flag at United States Customs Ports of Entry Digitization Vendor By The President of the United States of America Proclamation PROCLAMATION 4131 Display of the Flag at United States Customs Ports of EntryMay 5, 1972 By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation The flag of the United States should be one of the first things seen at our Customs ports of entry, both by American citizens returning from abroad and by travelers from other countries.

As the symbol of our country and our freedoms, the national colors of the United States provide a welcome greeting of warm promise. Many people, however, enter our country at night when the flag is not flown, because of the nearly universal custom of displaying it only from sunrise to sunset. Authority exists to amend that custom. A Congressional joint resolution of June 22, 1942 (56 Stat. 377), as amended (36U.S.C. 173–178),[56 Stat. 1074](/us/stat/56/1074). permits the flag to be displayed at night “upon special occasions when it is desired to produce a patriotic effect.

” I believe it is appropriate that returning citizens and visitors from other countries be welcomed by our flag whether they arrive at their ports of entry by night or by day. NOW, THEREFORE, I, RICHARD NIXON, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim that the flag of the 86 Stat. 1634United States of America shall hereafter be displayed at all times during the day and night, except when the weather is inclement, at United States Customs ports of entry which are continually open.

The rules and customs pertaining to the display of the flag, as set forth in the joint resolution of June 22, 1942, as amended, are hereby modified accordingly. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this fifth day of May, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred seventy-two, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred ninety-sixth. 4132 May 10, 1972 National Arthritis Month Digitization Vendor By The President of the United States of America Proclamation PROCLAMATION 4132 National Arthritis MonthMay 10, 1972 By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation Striking young and old indiscriminately, arthritis today afflicts more than 18 million Americans.

In its most crippling form, rheumatoid arthritis, it affects some 5 million people, 250,000 of whom are children. Arthritic diseases, including rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis, each year cause unemployment equal to full-time idleness for about a quarter of a million persons. The total cost to individuals and the Nation is estimated at $4 billion annually, but the sum total of human suffering is beyond calculation. Too few persons realize that arthritis is among America’s most crippling diseases.

Each year, as medical science advances through private and govern-mental medical research and education, thousands of people receive improved treatment and live more comfortable, more productive, and more satisfying lives. Other thousands, however, remain sentenced to lives of continuing pain and disability from arthritis. In recognition of the need to alleviate, through research and treatment, the human suffering as well as the economic toll caused by *Ante*, p. 135.arthritis, the Congress, in House Joint Resolution 1029, requested the President to issue a proclamation designating the month of May of 1972 as National Arthritis Month. 86 Stat. 1635 NOW, THEREFORE, I, RICHARD NIXON, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim the month of May 1972 as National Arthritis Month.

I invite the Governors of the States, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and officials of other areas subject to the jurisdiction of the United States to issue similar proclamations. Further, I urge medical professionals, citizens groups, and the American people to unite during the month of May in public affirmation of this Nation’s efforts to control arthritic diseases. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this tenth day of May, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred seventy-two, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred ninety-sixth. 4133 May 11, 1972 Modifying Proclamation No. 3279, Relating to Imports of Petroleum and Petroleum Products Digitization Vendor By The President of the United States of America Proclamation PROCLAMATION 4133 Modifying Proclamation No. 3279, Relating to Imports of Petroleum and Petroleum ProductsMay 11, 1972 By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation Pursuant to paragraph

(a)of section 6 of Proclamation No. 3279, as amended, the Director of the Office of Emergency Preparedness[73 Stat. C28](/us/stat/73/C28).[19 USC 1862 note](/us/usc/t19/s1862). maintains a constant surveillance of imports of petroleum and its primary derivatives in respect of the national security. The Director has found that the national security will not be adversely affected by changes which would increase licensed imports into Districts I–IV to meet requirements for the remainder of 1972. The Director, with the advice of the Oil Policy Committee, has recommended that Proclamation No. 3279, as amended, be further amended to adjust imports consistent with this finding. I agree with the findings and recommendations of the Director and deem it necessary and consistent with the security objectives of Proclamation No. 3279, as amended, to adjust the imports of petroleum and petroleum products, as hereinafter provided. NOW, THEREFORE, I, RICHARD NIXON, President of the United States of America, acting under and by virtue of the authority 86 Stat. 1636vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States, including [76 Stat. 877](/us/stat/76/877).19 USC 1862.section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, do hereby proclaim that, effective as of this date, Proclamation No. 3279, as amended, is further amended as follows: 1. *Ante*, p. 1593, In subparagraph

(2)of paragraph

(a)of Section 1A, substitute “570,000” for “540,000.” 2. *Ante*, p. 1593; *Post*, p. 1668. In subparagraph

(1)of paragraph

(a)of Section 2, substitute “1,165,000” for “965,000.” IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this eleventh day of May, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred seventy-two, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred ninety-sixth. 4134 May 11, 1972 Mother’s Day, 1972 Digitization Vendor By The President of the United States of America Proclamation PROCLAMATION 4134 Mother’s Day, 1972May 11, 1972 By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation There is a story about a little girl who said to her mother, in one of those bursts of exaggeration that children sometimes have, “Mama, I am nearer to you than I m to Papa.” Her mother asked what she meant by such a strange remark. “Why,” her daughter replied, “I am your own little girl, but I am only related to papa by marriage.” The point seems to survive a child’s exaggeration. In fact, where mothers are concerned most of us always retain something of that same feeling. A mother’s gift of life and love often arc the animating spirit of a family. And it has been the family which has passed on to future generations the values which have fashioned our Nation’s progress over the years. In 1972, we honor mothers for these contributions and more. In addition to the vital force they have always represented in family life, many mothers arc now finding greater opportunities to pursue careers outside the home. In the home and outside the home they make a special contribution to the vitality and spirit of America. 86 Stat. 1637 Fifty-eight years ago, Woodrow Wilson proclaimed the second Sunday of May as the special day to honor our mothers, calling upon the American people to make “a public expression of our love and reverence for the mothers of the country.” The Congress, by a joint resolution of May 8, 1914, has set aside the[38 Stat. 770](/us/stat/38/770).[36 USC 142](/us/usc/t36/s142). second Sunday of May of each year as a day in which we honor all mothers for their countless contributions to their own families, to their communities, and to the Nation. NOW, THEREFORE, I, RICHARD NIXON, President of the United States of America, do hereby request that Sunday, May 14, 1972, be observed as Mother’s Day; and I direct appropriate officials of the Government to display the flag of the United States on all Government buildings. I urge the people of the United States to show their reverence and respect for the mothers of this country by special expressions of affection and gratitude. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this eleventh day of May in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred seventy-two, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred ninety-sixth. 4135 May 12, 1972 World Trade Week, 1972 Digitization Vendor By The President of the United States of America Proclamation PROCLAMATION 4135 World Trade Week, 1972May 12, 1972 By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation From the earliest days of this Nation, the American people have been engaged vigorously in international trade. In this era of new competition, we intend to continue and expand such efforts. The benefits of such activity are manifest in the numerous U.S. job opportunities that foreign trade creates and in the enriched standard of living flowing from the freedom of the American people to buy diverse products from many lands. This mutually beneficial exchange of goods 86 Stat. 1638stimulates economic growth not only in the United States but also in the other nations of the world and contributes to better international understanding and goodwill. The world’s trade and monetary system exists in a dynamic environment, as was shown in the major reforms we successfully launched last year. Recent changes provide new trade opportunities for United States industries, firms, and workers in the various sectors of the American economy. All must take steps to make our participation in international trading activities more effective in order that the United States economy may reap the maximum benefits from this development. As our trade expands, production and employment in the American economy will be stimulated and our balance of payments placed in better equilibrium. The major trading nations have declared that they are prepared to initiate and actively support multilateral and comprehensive negotiations [61 Stat. pts. 5, 6](/us/stat/61/pts5/6).in the framework of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade with a view to the expansion of world trade and improvement in the worldwide standard of living. These aims can be achieved through the progressive dismantling of obstacles to trade and the improvement of the international framework for the conduct of world trade. The United States stands ready to do its fair share in international efforts to achieve these aims, and expects that other nations will do the same. In addition to trade benefits, stronger international relationships based on mutual equity will do much to enhance world stability and thus will assist the world’s constant search for new structures of peace. NOW, THEREFORE, I, RICHARD NIXON, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim the week beginning May 21, 1972, as World Trade Week, and I call upon the American people, the business community, and Government officials to cooperate in observing that week and to consider the expansion of world trade as an important national objective which warrants their attention and their productive efforts. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twelfth day of May, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred seventy-two, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred ninety-sixth. 4136 May 19, 1972 Prayer for Peace, Memorial Day, 1972 Digitization Vendor By The President of the United States of America Proclamation

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