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On the recordAugust 12, 1965
I also invite the people of the United States to honor the memory of Leif Erikson on that day by holding appropriate exercises and ceremonies in schools and churches, or other suitable places
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Proclamation 3666—Leif Erikson Day, 1965

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