Proclamation 4366.
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89 STAT. 1262 Proclamation 4366 · April 11, 1975 Pan American Day and Pan American Week By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation Each year, we and other members of the Organization of American States celebrate our shared origins and the close ties that continue to flourish among us. To do this, we commemorate a significant event in the diplomatic history of the Western Hemisphere—the founding, late in the last century, of the International Union of the American Republics.
This year marks the 85th anniversary of the establishment of that first inter-governmental regional organization and forerunner of the Organization of American States. From its earliest days, the organization has taken for its two major objectives the maintenance of peace and the promotion of economic, social and cultural development in the Americas. The strength and longevity of inter-American cooperation in furtherance of these goals derives from its tested ability to evolve and reconstitute itself to meet new realities and new challenges over the years.
In the Americas, we have come to recognize the fresh challenge presented by a new interdependence, which is global as well as hemispheric, linking developed with less developed countries both in and beyond the hemisphere. We sense the opportunity for effective inter--American cooperation to advance our traditional goals of peace and progress for our hemisphere while strengthening the global cooperation decreed by our world. NOW, THEREFORE, I, GERALD R. FORD, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim Monday, April 14, 1975, as Pan American Day, and the week beginning April 13, 1975, as Pan American Week, and I call upon the Governors of the fifty states, the Governor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and appropriate officials of all other areas under the flag of the United States to issue similar Proclamations.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this eleventh day of April, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred seventy-five, and 89 STAT. 1263of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred ninety-ninth. Gerald R. Ford 4367 April 14, 1975 Small Business Week, 1975 Digitization Vendor By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation Proclamation 4367 · April 14, 1975 Small Business Week, 1975 By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation Small business has been a vital part of American life from the very beginning.
The colonial traders, craftsmen and merchants of two centuries ago have been replaced by an enormous range of dealers in goods and services of all kinds, but the original opportunity, and the determination to excel, remain. Small business in America is still the free enterprise system’s gateway to opportunity—the means by which millions of Americans continue to build a better life for themselves and their families. Out of the estimated 9.7 million businesses in America today, more than 9 million are small.
They account for nearly half of the gross business product and more than half of the business labor force. Our American success story could never have been achieved, and would not continue, without this impressive contribution by small business. NOW, THEREFORE, I, GERALD R. FORD, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate the week beginning May 25, 1975, as Small Business Week. I ask all Americans to share with me during this week a solemn pride in the great achievements of our Nation’s small business men and women, and in the contributions they have made to our free way of life.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this fourteenth day of April, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred seventy-five, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred ninety-ninth. Gerald R. Ford 4368 April 22, 1975 Mother’s Day, 1975 Digitization Vendor By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation