CHAPTER I-PROCLAMATIONS Proclamation 3695 By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation The United Service Organizations-the USO-was created nearly twenty-five years ago to fill a vital human need on the part of millions of young Americans serving in our Armed Forces. It was created in 1941 to provide a breath of home for American service men and women, wherever in the world they might find themselves. Today these initials are known to all Americans, for millions of us have either helped the USO or have been served by it. In unfamiliar cities, in countless foreign lands, the familiar USO sign has welcomed more than 20 million Americans in uniform. It is serving today no less than in the past. In a world where the burden of arms is part of the price of freedom, almost three million Americans are still in uniform. Almost one million of them are overseas. Almost two hundred thousand of them are in Vietnam. Wherever they go, the USO goes with them. The USO brings more than entertainment. No matter how difficult the conditions, the USO strives to create an environment where a service man or woman can relax, listen to a record, meet friends, watch a show, get help with personal problems, or write a letter home. The needs of the human heart do not change. Wherever young Americans are stationed, the soldier's age-old questions are still asked: "Does anybody know I'm here?" "Does anybody care?" The USO is the American public's way of answering, "Yes." NOW, THEREFORE, I, LYNDON B. JOHNSON, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim February 4, 1966, as USO Day, and urge the people of the United States to give their enthusiastic support to the United Service Organizations. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States of America to be affixed. DONE at the City of Washington this thirty-first day of December in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and sixty-five, [SEAL] and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and ninetieth. By the President: DEAN RUSK, LYNDON B. JOHNSON Secretary of State. Proclamation 3696 TERMINATION OF INCREASED DUTY ON IMPORTS OF CLINICAL THERMOMETERS By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation 1. WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 350 of the Tariff Act of 1930, the President, on April 21, 1951, entered into, and by Proclamation No. 2929 of June 2, 1951 (65 Stat. c12), proclaimed the Torquay Protocol to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, including a concession applicable to certain types of clinical thermometers provided for in item 218(a) in Part I to Schedule XX of the Torquay Protocol (3 U.S.T. (pt. 1) 1144); 2. WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 7 of the Trade Agreements Extension Act of 1951, and in accordance with the provisions of Article XIX of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (61 Stat. (pt. 5) A58; 8 U.S.T. (pt. 2) 1786), the President by Proclamation No. 3235 of April 21, 1958 (72 Stat. (pt. 2) c35), proclaimed that, effective after the close of business on May 21, 1958, and until the President otherwise proclaimed, the concession with respect to the types of clinical thermometers identified in the first recital of this proclamation should be withdrawn, thereby increasing the rate of duty with respect to such articles; 3. WHEREAS, after compliance with the requirements of Section 102 of the Tariff Classification Act of 1962 (76 Stat. 73), the President by Proclamation No. 3548 of August 21, 1963 (77 Stat. 1017), proclaimed, effective on and after August 31, 1963, the Tariff Schedules of the United States, which reflected, with modifications, and, in effect, superseded (1) the provisions of Proclamation No. 2929 insofar as that proclamation proclaimed the concession with respect to the types of clínical thermometers identified in the first recital of this proclamation (see item 711.35 of the Tariff Schedules of the United States), and (2) the provisions of Proclamation No. 3235 (see item 930.00 of the Appendix to the Tariff Schedules of the United States); 4. WHEREAS, following my request under Section 351(d) (2) of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 (19 U.S.C. 1981 (d) (2)), the United States Tariff Commission conducted an investigation, including a hearing, pursuant to Section 351 (d) (5) of that Act (19 U.S.C. 1981 |