From @lex-luthor.ai.mit.edu:hes@REAGAN.AI.MIT.EDU  Wed Jun  9 14:22:46 1993
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1993 10:22-0400
From: The White House <75300.3115@compuserve.com>
To: Clinton-News-Distribution@campaign92.org
Subject: National Boating Week

                          THE WHITE HOUSE
  
                    Office of the Press Secretary
  
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  For Immediate Release                              June 4, 1993
  
                  NATIONAL SAFE BOATING WEEK, 1993
  
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          BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
  
                           A PROCLAMATION
  
       Nearly 70 million Americans enjoy recreational boating as a 
  favorite pastime.  America's scenic lakes, beautiful rivers, and 
  vast waterways provide a wonderful place for boaters to enjoy 
  family outings, waterskiing, fishing, and other activities.  
  It is appropriate that we recognize the many joys recreational 
  boating affords.  At the same time, because recreational boating 
  can involve risks to persons, property, and natural resources, 
  it is also important that we reflect upon ways to ensure safe 
  boating.
  
       The U.S. Coast Guard, the National Safe Boating Council, 
  and the many State and local recreational boating organizations 
  allied in the cause of safe boating have chosen "Boat Smart" as 
  the theme of National Safe Boating Week.  This theme serves as a 
  reminder to the millions of Americans who engage in recreational 
  boating that this activity should be enjoyed in a thoughtful, 
  responsible manner.  Many Americans can benefit from preparation 
  and caution:  taking boating safety courses; wearing personal 
  flotation devices; following the "Rules of the Road"; and not 
  using alcohol or drugs when operating boats.  Young boaters 
  learn safe boating practices by example, and today's boating 
  practices may affect the well-being of American families for 
  years to come.
  
       Boating is an activity that directly affects our precious 
  national water resources and associated wildlife.  Boaters must 
  carefully preserve and protect our rivers, lakes, seashores, 
  and wildlife by avoiding practices that give rise to accidents, 
  injuries, and pollution.  Today's boaters must take care to 
  preserve our precious waterways for future generations.
  
       For all of these reasons, I call upon boating Americans, 
  during National Safe Boating Week, 1993, to reflect on the 
  importance of safe boating to the health of our people and the 
  preservation of our natural resources.  We must commit ourselves 
  to safe and environmentally sensitive boating -- for now and for 
  the future.
  
       To promote boating as a safe sport, the Congress, by joint 
  resolution approved June 4, 1958 (36 U.S.C. 161), as amended, 
  has authorized and requested that the President annually 
  proclaim the week beginning on the first Sunday in June as 
  "National Safe Boating Week."
  
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       NOW, THEREFORE, I, WILLIAM J. CLINTON, President of the 
  United States of America, do hereby proclaim the week beginning 
  June 6, 1993, as National Safe Boating Week.  I encourage the 
  Governors of the 50 States and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, 
  and officials of other areas subject to the jurisdiction of the 
  United States, to provide for the observance of this week with 
  appropriate activities.  I urge all Americans to become informed 
  boaters and to enjoy safe, thoughtful recreational boating.
  
       IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
  fourth day of June, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and 
  ninety-three, and of the Independence of the United States of 
  America the two hundred and seventeenth.
  
       	    	      	   	     WILLIAM J. CLINTON
  
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