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Proclamation 3962—International Education Year

February 12, 1970


By the President of the United States Of America

A Proclamation

The United Nations Charter expresses the determination of the peoples of the United Nations "to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights," and "in the dignity and worth of the human person. . . ."

Education is a fundamental human right, one that recognizes and helps to preserve the dignity and the worth of human beings. With this in mind, the United Nations has designated 1970 as International Education Year and has called upon each member state to intensify its domestic educational efforts.

It is to that end that I, Richard Nixon, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim 1970 to be International Education Year in the United States.

I call upon all Americans to join our fellow citizens of the world in making this year one of reflection on the state of education as it exists and of action directed toward making education what it should be.

In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this twelfth day of February in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred seventy, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred ninety-fourth.

Signature of Richard Nixon

RICHARD NIXON

NOTE: The proclamation was released at Key Biscayne, Fla.

Richard Nixon, Proclamation 3962—International Education Year Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/306451

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