[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 167 (Tuesday, August 27, 1996)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 44143-44144]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-22061]
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Part III
The President
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Proclamation 6913--Minority Enterprise Development Week, 1996
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Federal Register / Vol. 61, No. 167 / Tuesday, August 27, 1996 /
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Title 3--
The President
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Proclamation 6913 of August 23, 1996
Minority Enterprise Development Week, 1996
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
As our Nation continues to surge forward in the
competitive arena of international business, minority
entrepreneurs are playing an increasingly important
role. In the new global economy, minority-owned
businesses represent a unique advantage for the United
States; the diversity of our national business
community is one of its main strengths. Behind this
success lies the daily work of thousands of minority
business men and women who are continuing to renew the
validity of the American Dream. Moreover, they are
showing that the Dream is strongest when all can
participate.
These Americans have stepped forward to accept several
challenges: the challenge of opening economic
participation to all citizens; the challenge of
overcoming the under-representation of minorities in
business ownership and management; and the challenge of
creating jobs in the communities where they are needed
most. These minority entrepreneurs entered the
marketplace with no guarantees of success, and their
achievements have helped level the playing field for
others who wish to follow in their footsteps.
Minority business leaders contribute to our country's
cultural and social heritage as well as to its economic
health. As business pioneers, they are valuable role
models to our youth, living heroes whose hard work and
self-empowerment are strong examples for others to
follow. These are the people whose work we celebrate
during this 14th annual observance of Minority
Enterprise Development Week. This year's observance is
particularly poignant. It comes just months after our
Nation lost Commerce Secretary Ron Brown and a group of
talented and dedicated Federal employees and American
business people in a tragic plane crash during a trade
mission to open commercial opportunities for American
businesses in Bosnia.
Ron Brown worked hard to include minority business
interests in our Nation's business and economic
development policies, and as we carry forward his
legacy, it is our responsibility to ensure that all
Americans can see business ownership as more than just
a dream. Our future as a world economic power rests on
the notion that business ownership can be attained by
anyone willing to work toward that goal. Minority
Enterprise Development Week is a time to spotlight the
minority men and women who provide the goods, services,
and jobs that keep this Nation strong. These Americans
support their communities and inspire future
generations. They are confident and competent people
whose commercial accomplishments show them to be equal
to any fair competition, whether here or abroad.
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 September 22 through
September 28, 1996, as Minority Enterprise Development
Week. I call on all citizens to commemorate this week
with appropriate ceremonies and activities, joining
together to recognize the contributions that minority
entrepreneurs make to our Nation's economy.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
twenty-third day of August, in the year of our Lord
nineteen hundred and ninety-six, and of the
Independence of the United States of America the two
hundred and twenty-first.
(Presidential Sig.)
[FR Doc. 96-22061
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