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# Proclamation 6339

Delivered on 23 September 1991.
By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation
One of the first aims of AMERICA 2000, our comprehensive strategy for achieving excellence in education, is ensuring that every child in the Nation starts school ready to learn. Because a hungry or undernourished child is less likely to be an eager and attentive student, the National School Lunch Program plays an important role in helping us to meet this goal.
Thanks to the National School Lunch Program, approximately 23 million students in 91,000 schools across the country are able to eat a wholesome, well-balanced lunch each day. Meals provided through the Program, which has been expanded to include the School Breakfast Program, help these children to develop the energy, stamina, and good health that they need to study and to learn.
The National School Lunch Program also continues to promote healthy eating habits among the youngsters who participate. Indeed, much has changed since their parents sat at the cafeteria table. As conventional wisdom regarding diet and nutrition has changed, so have school lunches. Students now have a much wider array of healthful and nutritious options than ever before.
The success of the National School Lunch Program has been made possible by many different people, including Federal, State, and local officials, as well as parents, educators, food service specialists, and students themselves. This week, we acknowledge the many dedicated professionals and volunteers who have contributed to the National School Lunch Program since its inception in 1946.
By joint resolution approved October 9, 1962 (Public Law 87—780), the Congress designated the week beginning on the second Sunday of October in each year as "National School Lunch Week" and requested the President to issue a proclamation in observance of that week.
Now, Therefore, I, George Bush, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim the week beginning October 13, 1991, as National School Lunch Week. I call upon all Americans to recognize those dedicated and hardworking individuals who contribute to the success of the School Lunch Program.
In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this twenty-third day of September, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and ninety-one, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and sixteenth.
George Bush
[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 4:16 p.m., September 23, 1991]
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# Proclamation 6336

Delivered on 13 September 1991.
By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation
Meeting our Nation's future energy needs is a task of immense proportions—and utmost importance. To some American motorists, this challenge might be symbolized by long lines for gasoline and high prices at the pump. To others, it might be symbolized by lowering the thermostat during winter months. However, when it comes to building a secure energy future for the United States, there is more at stake than meets the eye. Safe, reliable, and affordable sources of energy are vital not only to our personal mobility and comfort but also to our Nation's productivity and security. America's utility companies and other energy providers supply the light, heat, and power that are needed to operate our factories and farms, our schools and defense installations, and other places of work.
Continuing instability and conflict in some regions of the world underscore the need to use energy efficiently; to reduce our dependence on insecure sources of energy; and to develop more energy resources. Of course, we must skillfully balance efforts in these areas with our determination to maintain a growing economy. We must also balance them with our commitment to a cleaner, healthier environment.
Our comprehensive National Energy Strategy calls for the wise and effective development of all of our Nation's energy resources, including coal, natural gas, and nuclear energy, as well as hydroelectric power and other forms of renewable energy. It also calls for the development of new technology for oil and gas exploration; increased use of alternative fuels; and aggressive conservation efforts.
This month, the United States Department of Energy will be working to promote public awareness of our Nation's energy needs and the energy options that are available to us. With strong leadership at all levels of government—and with the sustained cooperation of business, industry, energy providers, and concerned consumers—we can implement the sound energy policies and practices that are essential to America's well-being.
Now, Therefore, I, George Bush, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim October 1991 as Energy Awareness Month. I urge all Americans to observe this month with appropriate educational programs and activities.
In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this thirteenth day of September, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and ninety-one, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and sixteenth.
George Bush
[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 11:17 a.m., September 16, 1991]
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# Proclamation 6335

Delivered on 12 September 1991.
By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation
The most important priority of our National Drug Control Strategy is to reduce drug use by our Nation's citizens, especially our young people. A key aim of AMERICA 2000, our national strategy for achieving excellence in American education, is to ensure that every school in the United States is free of drugs and violence. Realizing these goals will require the creative energy and the commitment of many different people in every community. Parents, educators, law enforcement officials, and students, as well as business and civic leaders, must work together to rid our Nation of drugs and to build schools and neighborhoods where individuals can learn.
Drug Abuse Resistance Education, or Project D.A.R.E., provides an outstanding example of how such cooperation works. Taught by veteran law enforcement personnel, the D.A.R.E. program is designed to prevent the use of drugs and alcohol among students. It teaches young people to resist pressure to use drugs and encourages wholesome alternatives to drug use. Initiated in 1983, D.A.R.E. is one of many constructive, school-community partnerships that have been implemented in all 50 States and in several foreign countries.
In recognition of D.A.R.E.'s contribution in forging strong bonds between schools and communities—bonds that are essential to achieving our National Education Goals—the Congress, by Senate Joint Resolution 121, has designated September 12, 1991, as "National D.A.R.E. Day."
Now, Therefore, I, George Bush, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim September 12, 1991, as National D.A.R.E. Day. I encourage all Americans to observe this day with appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities.
In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this twelfth day of September, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and ninety-one, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and sixteenth.
George Bush
[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 4:03 p.m., September 12, 1991]
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# Proclamation 6698

Delivered on 31 May 1994.
By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation
Few images are more traditionally American than the vast geometric tapestry of plowed fields and lush crops that carpet our country. Since our Nation's founding, farms have defined both the topography of our land and the steadfastness of our national character. Farm families take particular pride in knowing that women-as field workers and financial managers, as mothers and homemakers-have been a vital, driving force in sustaining this essential enterprise from its beginnings.
Today, American agriculture encompasses far more than a quiet picture of pastoral beauty. Our Nation's farmers grow the food that feeds the world. Merging old-fashioned know-how with the latest innovations in production technology, farmers across the United States work to ensure that our markets are filled with low-cost, high-quality goods. With wise leadership and firm support, women in their myriad roles in our agriculture industry reflect the proud American commitment to excellence.
As we celebrate National Women in Agriculture Day 1994, we recognize new ways in which women's energy and determination are helping to keep our agricultural system strong. Whether in investigating the ecosystem of a Brazilian rain forest or in exploring new opportunities in international trade, women are working to enhance efficiency and competitiveness in American agribusiness-a mission that benefits all of the Earth's people.
With an abiding love for their families and a deep understanding of the challenges farmers face, women have urged our Nation to action in areas from environmental protection to providing health care to every one of our citizens. Their personal experiences of hard work and cooperation have made the world of American agriculture thrive. Just as important, they have demonstrated to all of us the strength of compassion and the power of perseverance. For this lesson and for the gifts of their labor we enjoy every day, our Nation's women in agriculture have our heartfelt gratitude.
Now, Therefore, I, William J. Clinton, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim June 9, 1994, as "National Women in Agriculture Day." I call upon the people of the United States to observe this day with appropriate ceremonies and activities.
In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this thirty-first day of May, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and ninety-four, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and eighteenth.
William J. Clinton
[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 11:15 a.m., June 1, 1994]
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# Proclamation 6701

Delivered on 14 June 1994.
By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation
June conjures up memories of sunny days, backyard cookouts, relaxing vacations, lush gardens in bloom, and on the third Sunday of the month, the celebration of Father's Day. This is a time set aside by tradition to pay tribute to fathers across our land and to thank them for their unconditional love, for their belief in their children's potential, and for their vital parental role. Their profound influence on their sons and daughters-on society itself-is incalculable.
The loving concern of fathers in raising, protecting, educating, encouraging, and providing direction for their children shapes our national character, as well as our children's. The positive interaction of fathers who responsibly welcome the challenges of guiding their children is immeasurable. Through the nurturing support of such parents, competent, caring, and resilient generations of citizens develop and thrive. These fathers, whether biological, foster, or adoptive, deserve our honor and gratitude.
All fathers in our society today must reinvest in supplying emotional and financial support for their children. It is never too late to assume the responsibility for meeting a child's needs. To do so, despite personal and economic hardship, is to help our children transcend adverse circumstances and to earn the love, respect, and appreciation that will become a legacy of devotion for generations long after ours.
Our Nation is becoming increasingly aware that a father's acceptance and support are powerful motivators. It is most fitting that we recognize our fathers' contributions today and every day-that we express, through word or deed, our appreciation to them and that we remember their love, their friendship, and their faith in us.
Now, Therefore, I, William J. Clinton, President of the United States of America, in accordance with a joint resolution of the Congress approved April 24, 1972 (36 U.S.C. 142a), do hereby proclaim, Sunday, June 19, 1994, as "Father's Day." I invite the States, communities and people of the United States to observe this day with appropriate ceremonies as a mark of appreciation and affection for our fathers.
In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this fourteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and ninety-four, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and eighteenth.
William J. Clinton
[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 10:52 a.m., June 15, 1994]
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# Protestant Exiles from France/Volume 2 - Book Third - Chapter 13 - Section XIII

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Note as to the Wandsworth Huguenot Cemetery (known as Mount Nod).
The Wandsworth and Battersea District Times has printed much useful information. There is a French epitaph to a refugee lady:—
Ici repose Dame Isabeau Bories de Montauban en Guienne, espouse de Jean de Comarque, escuyer. Decedée le vi. Aoust mdccxxxi., la lxiu. année de son age.
​All the other epitaphs and registrations are in English, such as:—
Here lyeth y$^e$ body of Lewis de la Porte de Crauant, French Gent., deceased y$^e$ 5th day of February 1709, in y$^e$ 54th yeare of his age.
The following memoranda are suggested by the register:—
Peter Delaporte, Esq., bought the mansion and park of Esher in or about 1718; he became a Director of the South Sea Company, and surrendered all his property by order of Parliament; he was found to be worth £17,151, 5s. 6d., and the House of Commons virtually acquitted him of fraud by returning to him £10,000.
In 1755, July 17th, Miss Jeanne Susanne de Rodon Trollett was married at Wandsworth to Lawrence Desborough; the lady’s noble names suggest the nobility of Anthony Trollet, Esq., who was buried there in 1751, aged 70.
Elizabeth, y$^e$ wife of Mr. Molinier, was buried in 1736; and Benjamin, infant son of Mr. Benjamin Caron, of St. James, Westminster, in 1737.
# Protestant Exiles from France/Volume 2 - Book Third - Chapter 13 - Section IX

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De Vicouse.
Among the Directors of the French Hospital of London was Guy de Vicouse, Baron de la Court, Governor from 1722 to 1728. He was a subscriber to the first edition of Rapin’s History; and Rapin’s biographer states that his French title was Baron Vicose de la Cour, and that he was a descendant of Raymond de Vicose, Councillor and Secretary of State to Henri IV, who fought so bravely at the Battle of Ivry, that the king gave him his famous white plume, now represented in the family armorial bearings. This name often re-appeared in the persons of spiritual heroes who were rewarded for their attachment to the Protestant faith by imprisonment and exile. According to Haag, the comrade of Henri IV. was Savignac Vicose, General of his Commissariat and Secretary of his Finances, and Governor of the Castle of St. Maixent. Another De Vicose was beheaded by the Parliament of Toulouse in 1628, he having persuaded the citizens of Montauban to declare in favour of the Due de Rohan in the last civil war. The refugee baron kept the dragoons at bay, sword in hand, and succeeded in escaping to England. His sister, then aged thirty-five, was in 1686 imprisoned in the Convent of Castel-Larvazin. Another Guy Vicouse, probably his son, became a Director of the French Hospital on 5th July 1732.
# Protestant Exiles from France/Book Second - Chapter 4 - Section II

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II. La Marquise de Ruvigny.
Madame la Marquise de Ruvigny, in her widowhood, is separately memorialised, because (as the reader will perceive) historical inquirers have thus a vein opened up for further research. On the death of her aged husband in 1689, her younger son was with his regiment in Ireland. Her grief at his death, in the prime of life and at the height of promise, is alluded to in Lady Russell’s letter. And Dumont de Bostaquet says, as to the royal gift of the colonelcy of Schomberg’s Horse to her eldest son, that “she was little elated by the gift of such a magnificent regiment, seeing in it nothing but the exposure of her dear and only surviving son to the perils of that Irish war, which had deprived her of La Caillemotte.”
Greenwich was her place of abode up to this date. Mr. Baynes says, “The Dowager Marchioness De Ruvigny had a residence at Blackheath.”
From the Earl of Galway’s will, it appears that she made her will on 14th May 1698, but where the will was deposited I cannot ascertain. The date of her death is not preserved, but it probably was May 1698, or soon after, as may be inferred from the following communication to our ambassador in Paris, the Earl of Manchester:—
“Whitehall, July 17, 1699. . . . I am likewise to put into your Lordship’s hands a petition of my Lady Russell concerning her pretensions to the estate of the late Marquis De Ruvigny, her uncle — the memorial of Sir William Douglas — the petition of Monsieur Le Bas, Mareshal of the Ceremonies, and the case of Mrs Mary Cardins, who all pray to be restored to their estates in France as is more fully contained in the papers herewith delivered to your Lordship.”
(Signed)“Jersey.”
Louis XIV. met such petitions by alleging that to repossess the memorialists was to dispossess the present occupiers, thus disobliging as many persons as would be obliged. This apology did not in honesty apply to the Ruvigny estate, as it was not given away until 31st March 1711, at which date the king gave to Cardinal de Polignac “la confiscation des biens de Monsieur de Ruvigny, qui s’appelle en Angleterre Milord Galway.”
# Protestant Exiles from France/Book first - Title page

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BOOK FIRST.
REFUGEES BETWEEN 1560 AND 1680.
Edinburgh Review, vol. 99, page 455:— “The refugees who settled in England waited long for a history of their fortunes, but they at length found a chronicler in Mr Southerden Burn, who having been appointed in 1843 secretary to the commission for collecting the non-parochial registers of baptisms, marriages, and burials, undertook the work of extricating, from the papers committed to his hands, all the profitable matter they could yield. He has thence drawn an authentic sketch of the French, Walloon, Dutch, and other foreign Protestant congregations harboured in England since the reign of Henry VIII., in the form of a catalogue raisonneé of those curious archives, full of particulars, dates, family names, and quotations ; being rather well-arranged materials of a book than the book itself.”
# Protestant Exiles from France/Book Second - Front matter

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BOOK SECOND.
THE MILITARY CHIEFS
OF THE HUGUENOT REFUGEES OF THE REVOCATION ERA.
The Historical Introduction which is prefixed to Volume Second is applicable to Volume First, Book Second.
# Proclamation 6878

Delivered on 4 April 1996.
By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation
As a mark of respect for Secretary Ronald H. Brown and all those killed in the April 3, 1996, crash of the U.S. Air Force aircraft in Croatia, I hereby order, by the authority vested in me as President of the United States of America by section 175 of title 36 of the United States Code, that the flag of the United States shall be flown at half-staff at the White House and upon all public buildings and grounds, at all military posts and naval stations, and on all naval vessels of the Federal Government in the District of Columbia and throughout the United States and its Territories and possessions through Wednesday, April 10, 1996. I also direct that the flag shall be flown at half-staff for the same length of time at all United States embassies, legations, consular offices, and other facilities abroad, including all military facilities and naval vessels and stations.
In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this fourth day of April, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and ninety-six, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and twentieth.
William J. Clinton
[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 8:45 a.m., April 5, 1996]
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# Proclamation 6885

Delivered on 17 April 1996.
By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation
The history of America is a history of volunteerism. Our people have always worked together to resolve concerns, to fight injustice, to rebuild communities, and to comfort those in need. And though some regard today's society with cynicism and doubt, we need only look to the more than 89.2 million volunteers who work tirelessly throughout the year to see that we are still a people who care for one another and who daily seek positive change by reaching out to others.
We owe a great debt to the many volunteers who work to stem the tides of poverty, hunger, homelessness, crime, and abuse. Examples of unsung heroes exist in every neighborhood-a mother starts an after-school program in her garage to tutor young people in a crime-ridden area; a group of teenagers takes youngsters from a local shelter to the movies or a cultural event a few times a month; an elderly man looks after his neighbor's children so that she can run errands; a family makes regular visits to seniors at a local home. Citizens from all walks of life are working together to claim our Nation's challenges as their own, building bridges among people and setting a powerful example of leadership and compassion.
This week and throughout the year, let us salute all those who devote their time, their talents, and sometimes even their lives to the betterment of our communities. And let us recognize organizations like the Corporation for National and Community Service and the Points of Light Foundation that foster the spirit of service across America. In partnership with government, schools, and religious communities, these caring individuals and groups are expanding and encouraging the great American legacy of volunteerism.
Now, Therefore, I, William J. Clinton, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim April 21 through April 27, 1996, as National Volunteer Week. I call upon all Americans to observe this week with appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities to express appreciation for volunteers and to encourage volunteer activities.
In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this seventeenth day of April, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and ninety-six, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and twentieth.
William J. Clinton
[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 10:42 a.m., April 18, 1996]
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