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Eisenhower: “I also call upon the people of the Nation to give public and private expression to the esteem in which our country holds…”

On the recordMay 4, 1955
I also call upon the people of the Nation to give public and private expression to the esteem in which our country holds its mothers, through the display of the flag at their homes and other suitable places, through prayers at their places of worship, and through appropriate manifestations of respect and devotion.
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Eisenhower
Republican · Kansas

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Proclamation 3092—Mother's Day, 1955

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