[Federal Register Volume 59, Number 90 (Wednesday, May 11, 1994)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Page 24629]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 94-11658]
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[Federal Register: May 11, 1994]
Presidential Documents
Proclamation 6687 of May 9, 1994
Older Americans Month, 1994
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
Each year over 2 million of us become older Americans--
entering a time of life that can bring new freedom, new
choices, and new beginnings. Retirement years offer the
freedom to strengthen family bonds and to share
knowledge and talents with friends and family members.
It can be a time to engage in cultural, intellectual,
and recreational activities with others and to provide
them with the guidance that comes from a lifetime of
experience. It can be a time of new beginnings--used to
pursue a second career, to gain more education, or to
engage in volunteer work that makes our neighborhoods,
communities, and the world a better place in which to
live.
To enjoy these opportunities, we must take greater
responsibility in planning for a long life. Maintaining
a healthy lifestyle and staying physically fit can help
us to make the most of these new freedoms, choices, and
beginnings. While we in Government work to promote
universal health care coverage for all Americans, all
of us can encourage friends and families to pursue
daily practices that promote physical and mental well-
being.
This year's Older Americans Month celebration centers
around the theme of long life and good health with the
slogan--``Aging: An Experience of a Lifetime.'' I am
asking all Americans to help make this theme a reality
by striving to achieve healthy and productive
lifestyles.
Each year, we are learning new ways to promote longer,
healthier, and more rewarding lives. We can do this by
learning to eat nutritiously, by giving up smoking, by
moderating our consumption of alcoholic beverages, and
by entering into a personal or group fitness program.
New studies show that regardless of age, it's never too
late to improve health and vitality.
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 the month of May 1994, as
Older Americans Month. I call upon individual
Americans, representatives of government at all levels,
businesses, and community, volunteer, and educational
groups to work to increase opportunities for older
Americans and to adopt healthier lifestyles.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
ninth 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.
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[FR Doc. 94-11658
Filed 5-10-94; 11:02 am]
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