98-12689. Mother's Day, 1998

[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 91 (Tuesday, May 12, 1998)]
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The President





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Proclamation 7093--Mother's Day, 1998


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                Proclamation 7093 of May 7, 1998

                
Mother's Day, 1998

                By the President of the United States of America

                A Proclamation

                Mothers are the heart of our families and the soul of 
                our society. They are the nurturers of life, our 
                teachers, confidants, counselors, and lifelong friends. 
                They believe in our dreams and help us to achieve them. 
                They help us develop the values, self-esteem, strength 
                of character, and generosity of spirit we need to 
                embrace the wider world beyond the family. Above all, 
                mothers provide us with the blessing of their love.

                While this special love between mother and child is 
                unchanging, the challenges of motherhood are not. The 
                role of women in our society has changed dramatically 
                during the past century. Millions of American women 
                today pursue full-time careers in addition to carrying 
                out their duties as parents, balancing family, job, and 
                community responsibilities. Whether they stay home with 
                their children or become working mothers, mothers today 
                care for their families and meet the new demands of our 
                complex society with strength, courage, and quiet 
                selflessness. On Mother's Day, let us honor all 
                mothers--biological or adoptive, foster or stepmother--
                whose unconditional love has strengthened us and whose 
                many gifts have graced our lives.

                The Congress, by a joint resolution approved May 8, 
                1914 (38 Stat. 770), has designated the second Sunday 
                in May each year as ``Mother's Day'' and requested the 
                President to call for its appropriate observance.

                 NOW, THEREFORE, I, WILLIAM J. CLINTON, President of 
                the United States of America, do hereby proclaim May 
                10, 1998, as Mother's Day. I urge all Americans to 
                express their love, respect, and appreciation for the 
                contributions mothers have made to all of us, and I 
                call upon all citizens to observe this day with 
                appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities.

                IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 
                seventh day of May, in the year of our Lord nineteen 
                hundred and ninety-eight, and of the Independence of 
                the United States of America the two hundred and 
                twenty-second.

                    (Presidential Sig.)

[FR Doc. 98-12689
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