Proclamation 3606—National Freedom From Hunger Week, 1964

Whereas the United States, as a member of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, is participating with over one hundred other countries of the world in the international Freedom from Hunger Campaign; and

Whereas the American Freedom from Hunger Foundation has been established to provide citizen leadership for the Campaign in the United States; and

Whereas the farmers of this Nation have produced an abundance of food which this country is willing to share with others; and

Whereas industry and labor organizations of this Nation have demonstrated their concern with the world-wide problem of hunger through their willingness to share their technical knowledge and other resources with the developing countries; and

Whereas the people of the United States have also demonstrated their concern with this world-wide problem through their generous support of overseas assistance programs of religious organizations, voluntary agencies, and private groups and foundations, and through Food For Peace and other governmental programs; and

Whereas there is a need for a rededication of men's minds and hearts to the inspiring possibilities of working together to free the world from hunger:

Now, Therefore, I, Lyndon B. Johnson, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate the week of November 15 through November 21, 1964, as National Freedom from Hunger Week.

I ask the American Freedom from Hunger Foundation to take national leadership in planning appropriate observance of National Freedom from Hunger Week; and I urge all Americans to cooperate with the Foundation and to participate actively in the observance of that week.

I direct the departments and agencies of the Federal Government which have responsibilities in the field of food, nutrition, and international relations to take appropriate steps to observe, and to cooperate with private groups in observing, National Freedom from Hunger Week.

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 Fifteenth day of August in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and sixty-four, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eighty-ninth.

LYNDON B. JOHNSON

By the President:

DEAN RUSK,

Secretary of State.