Proclamation 4435—Earth Week
04/19/1976
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Mr. Secretary, it is my honor and tremendous privilege to award you on behalf of this grateful Nation the Presidential M...
When I took office in 1974, I found many of our regulatory laws outdated and unintelligible.
Of the 119,256 suggestions which were submitted by military personnel during Fiscal Year 1976, 19,375 were adopted.
The social and economic progress to which they aspire cannot come without the political equality of statehood.