Mother's Day, 1998

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Part IX

The President

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Proclamation 7093--Mother's Day, 1998

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Title 3--
The President

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.