Proclamation 3669—National American Legion Baseball Week

Whereas American Legion junior baseball has provided programs of sport and recreation for 15 million young Americans since 1925; and

Whereas American Legion junior baseball performs a vital service to our youth by offering them opportunities to develop physical fitness, to learn the value of teamwork and mutual cooperation, to acquire respect for other persons, rules, and property, as well as opportunities to develop individual skills and to advance to professional careers in the sport of baseball; and

Whereas the annual American Legion World Series for 1965 will be played at Aberdeen, South Dakota, during the period from August 31 through September 6; and

Whereas the Congress, by a joint resolution approved August 23, 1965, has requested the President to designate the period from August 31 through September 6, 1965, as National American Legion Baseball Week:

Now, Therefore, I, Lyndon B. Johnson, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim the period from August 31 through September 6, 1965, as National American Legion Baseball Week, and I invite the Governors of the several States to join me in issuing similar proclamations.

I call upon all sports organizations, community leaders, parents and other interested citizens to arrange appropriate observances of National American Legion Baseball Week and to join hands in the effort to strengthen all programs which contribute to the healthy physical and moral development of our youth.

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 twenty-third day of August in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and sixty-five, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and ninetieth.

LYNDON B. JOHNSON

By the President:

DEAN RUSK

Secretary of State