National Character Counts Week, 1995

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Part V

The President

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Proclamation 6841--National Character Counts Week, 1995

Proclamation 6842--National Forest Products Week, 1995

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Title 3--
The President

Proclamation 6841 of October 14, 1995

National Character Counts Week, 1995

By the President of the United States of America

A Proclamation

The children of today will be tomorrow's leaders,
educators, caregivers, and parents. As we seek to
prepare our Nation for the challenges of the future, we
must reaffirm America's deepest beliefs and instill in
our youth the principles of opportunity,
responsibility, and community that have always united
our citizens. Emphasizing both individual and social
duties, character education helps us toward that goal
and reminds us that our country's strength has long
been drawn from fundamental ideas.

Families have always held the primary obligation for
teaching values to their children. Schools, too, play a
vital role in reinforcing the basic precepts of good
citizenship--fairness and honesty, respect for oneself
and for others, and personal accountability. My
Administration's education agenda is dedicated to
raising standards for academics and discipline so that
young people will have the essential tools they need to
succeed. Our Goals 2000: Educate America Act embraces
the importance of parental involvement in the learning
process, recognizing that family participation
encourages children to value scholarship and to adopt
strong values. Character education programs can
increase school performance as well, and the Improving
America's Schools Act promotes such initiatives.

As Americans, we are called upon to fulfill the
obligations of citizenship in many ways. As our Nation
observes this special week, let us remember our
responsibilities to children and do everything in our
power to inspire in them the moral and ethical
standards that will, in turn, help them to become
productive, integral members of our society.

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 October 15 through October
21, 1995, as National Character Counts Week. I call
upon government officials; educators; religious,
community, and business leaders; and all the people of
the United States to work for the preservation of
traditional values and to commemorate this week with
appropriate ceremonies, activities, and programs.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
fourteenth day of October, 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.