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Jimmy Carter: I do hereby request that Sunday, June 17, 1979, be observed as Father's Day.

On the recordApril 29, 1979
I do hereby request that Sunday, June 17, 1979, be observed as Father's Day.
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Jimmy Carter
Democratic · Georgia

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Proclamation 4659—Father's Day, 1979

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