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Hi All...

This is a proclamation from 1985 from President Reagan, honouring the
"Lubavitcher Rebbe", Menachem Mendel Schneerson, and the values he
exemplies, with their roots in the "Seven Noahide Laws".

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Proclamation 5317 -- Education Day, U.S.A., 1985

April 4, 1985

By the President of the United States

of America

A Proclamation

In order to achieve its highest goals, education must be more than
just a training in facts and figures, or even in basic skills, as
important as they are. It must also include instruction in the 
deepest ethical values of our civilization.

Very few Americans have done more to promote these ethical values as
the basis of civilization than Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the
leader of the worldwide Lubavitch movement. The word ``Lubavitch''
comes from the name of a Russian city and means city of love. That 
is very appropriate because, of all the ethical values which inform 
our civilization, none is more important than love -- love of wisdom, 
love of our fellowman, and love of our Creator.

These are the values which Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson
exemplifies. And they are the values, with their roots in the Seven
Noahide Laws, which have guided the Lubavitch movement throughout its
history. They are the essence of education at its best, and we should
be certain that we pass on this precious heritage to all young
Americans.

In recognition of Rabbi Schneerson's contributions and in honor of 
his 83rd birthday, which falls this year on April 2, the Congress, by
House Joint Resolution 186, has designated April 2, 1985, as
``Education Day, U.S.A.'' and authorized and requested the President
to issue an appropriate proclamation in observance of this event.

Now, Therefore, I, Ronald Reagan, President of the United States of
America, do hereby proclaim Tuesday, April 2, 1985, as Education Day,
U.S.A., and I call upon the people of the United States, and in
particular our teachers and other educational leaders, to observe that
day with appropriate ceremonies and activities.

In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this fourth day of
April, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and eighty-five, and
of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred
and ninth.

Ronald Reagan

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 11:48 a.m., April 5, 1985]

Note: The proclamation was released by the Office of the Press Secretary on 
April 5. 


Source - http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/resource/speeches/1985/40485f.htm

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Cheers, Steve..

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