A National Day of Unity

Vol. 86

Monday,

No. 14

January 25, 2021

Part II

The President

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Proclamation 10140--A National Day of Unity

Proclamation 10141--Ending Discriminatory Bans on Entry to the United
States

Executive Order 13985--Advancing Racial Equity and Support for
Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government

Executive Order 13986--Ensuring a Lawful and Accurate Enumeration and
Apportionment Pursuant to the Decennial Census

Executive Order 13987--Organizing and Mobilizing the United States
Government To Provide a Unified and Effective Response To Combat COVID-
19 and To Provide United States Leadership on Global Health and
Security

Executive Order 13988--Preventing and Combating Discrimination on the
Basis of Gender Identity or Sexual Orientation

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Title 3--
The President

Proclamation 10140 of January 20, 2021

A National Day of Unity

By the President of the United States of America

A Proclamation

I am humbled before God and my fellow Americans to take
the sacred oath of President of our beloved country.

Today, we celebrate the triumph of democracy after an
election that saw more Americans voting than ever
before in our Nation's history, and where the will of
the people has been heard and heeded.

We do so at a moment of great peril and promise for our
Nation. A once-in-a-century deadly pandemic. A historic
and deepening economic crisis. Calls for racial justice
some 400 years in the making. A climate crisis with
force and fury. We also feel the rise in political
extremism and domestic terrorism--unleashed just days
ago on our Capitol, the citadel of freedom, but brewing
long before--that we must confront and defeat.

Yet in this dire moment, democracy prevailed. On this
day, we set our sights on the Nation we know we can and
must be. I am honored to do so alongside Vice President
Kamala Harris, the first woman who has taken the oath
to serve in elected national office, and who will not
be the last. Together, we know that to overcome the
challenges before all of us, to restore the soul of
America, requires the beating heart of a democracy:
Unity.

With unity, we can save lives and beat this pandemic.
We can build our economy back better and include
everyone. We can right wrongs and root out systemic
racism in our country. We can confront the climate
crisis with American jobs and ingenuity. We can protect
our democracy by seeing each other not as adversaries
but as fellow Americans. For the world to see, with
unity we can lead not just by the example of our power,
but by the power of our example.

As we start the hard work to be done, I pray this
moment gives us the strength to rebuild this house of
ours upon a rock that can never be washed away. And, as
in the Prayer of St. Francis, for where there is
discord, union; where there is doubt, faith, where
there is darkness, light.

On this Inauguration Day I swear an oath to be a
President for all Americans and ask every American to
join me in this cause of democracy. May this be the
story that unites us as fellow Americans and as the
United States of America.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of
the United States of America, by the authority vested
in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United
States, do hereby proclaim January 20, 2021, a National
Day of Unity and call upon the people of our Nation to
join together and write the next story of our
democracy--an American story of decency and dignity, of
love and of healing, and of greatness and of goodness.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
twentieth day of January, in the year of our Lord two
thousand twenty-one, and of the Independence of the
United States of America the two hundred and forty-
fifth.