By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
Whereas an effective public transportation system is vital to our economy and to our national defense; and
Whereas April 5, 1962, is the seventy-fifth anniversary of the establishment of the Interstate Commerce Commission, the agency which is charged with the responsibility for regulating surface transportation in the United States; and
Whereas the activities of the Interstate Commerce Commission in the regulation of our surface transportation industry significantly affect every citizen of the United States; and
Whereas the Interstate Commerce Commission deserves special recognition for its contribution to the strength and well-being of our Nation; and
Whereas the Congress, by a joint resolution approved April 4, 1962, has requested the President to issue a proclamation designating April 5, 1962, as Interstate Commerce Commission Day to commemorate the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Interstate Commerce Commission:
Now, Therefore, I, John F. Kennedy, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate April 5, 1962, as Interstate Commerce Commission Day; and I urge our people, in collaboration with the transportation industry and the Interstate Commerce Commission, to participate in the observance of this occasion by appropriate ceremonies.
In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States of America to be affixed.
DONE at the City of Washington this Fourth day of April in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and sixty-two, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eighty-sixth.
JOHN F. KENNEDY
By the President:
DEAN RUSK,
Secretary of State
John F. Kennedy, Proclamation 3462—Interstate Commerce Commission Day Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/269370