Minority Enterprise Development Week, 1995

Proclamation 6815 of August 7, 1995

Minority Enterprise Development Week, 1995

By the President of the United States of America

A Proclamation

For citizens throughout the Nation, entrepreneurship is
a proven gateway to economic empowerment. At its best,
our free enterprise system works to ensure that all of
our citizens have the opportunity to contribute fully
to America's economic growth and to benefit fully from
our economy's success. However, the road to
entrepreneurial achievement is seldom easy. Those who
undertake the journey must be talented, determined, and
brave. But America has a history of rewarding risk-
takers, and there is much to be gained in the attempt.

If this country is to continue to prosper in the years
ahead, we must hold fast to the promise of minority
enterprise development. Business growth in our minority
communities creates wealth, encourages self-
sufficiency, and generates jobs where they are needed.
My Administration is working hard to strengthen all of
our Nation's businesses, opening new domestic and
international markets, stimulating the efficient use of
developed but underutilized land in older cities and
towns, and reducing the cost of borrowing for business
start-ups and expansions. These innovative efforts are
making an impact, and people throughout America are
stepping forward to take advantage of the possibilities
of investment.

This week plays an important part in our work to
promote the growth of the minority business community.
As we recognize America's outstanding minority business
men and women, we honor their accomplishments and help
spur them on to greater heights. Highlighting their
success, this occasion touches even those who have not
yet dreamed of starting their own businesses. We are
all inspired by the example our entrepreneurs have set.

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 24 through
September 30, 1995, as ``Minority Enterprise
Development Week.'' I call on all Americans to
commemorate this event with appropriate ceremonies and
activities, joining together to recognize the
contributions that minority entrepreneurs make every
day to our national economic security.

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