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From @lex-luthor.ai.mit.edu:hes@REAGAN.AI.MIT.EDU Thu Apr 29 17:57:49 1993
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1993 15:49-0400
From: The White House <75300.3115@compuserve.com>
Subject: Proclamation on the Death of Cesar Chavez
To: Clinton-News-Distribution@campaign92.org
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
_______________________________________________________________
For Immediate Release April 29, 1993
DEATH OF CESAR CHAVEZ
- - - - - - -
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION
Cesar Chavez came from the humble yet proud beginnings of
a migrant worker to lead those same workers in a movement that
irreversibly shaped our Nation and brought justice and dignity
to thousands. After the Depression forced young Cesar and
his family from their ranch, he began working in the fields
at an early age. His family traveled throughout California
following the seasonal work, and he attended nearly 70 schools
before dropping out to help support his family. Although his
formal education ended after the seventh grade, Cesar learned
much from the courageous example of his parents. Often among
the first to resist exploitation and to stand up to injustice,
they instilled in Cesar a profound respect for the intrinsic
value of each human person, and a fervent desire to protect that
value. Inspired by the teachings of a Catholic priest and by
the writings of Ghandi and other great civil leaders, Cesar rose
to become one of the great labor leaders of our time.
The United Farm Workers, the union he founded and led for
almost three decades, became a symbol of empowerment and pride
for many workers. Cesar's innate understanding of the problems
facing migrant workers allowed him to organize thousands of
farm workers across the Nation. With natural leadership and
unflagging determination, he achieved real progress where others
had failed.
His insistence on nonviolent tactics stood in stark
contrast to the bitterness and brutality that were used in
resistance. The strength of his vision and the power of his
leadership enabled him to take his struggle directly to the
American people. He focused our Nation's attention on the
economic and social plight of migrant farm workers and, in the
process, taught us how injustice anywhere affects us everywhere.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, WILLIAM J. CLINTON, President of the
United States of America, by the authority vested in me by the
Constitution and laws of the United States, in tribute to the
memory of Cesar Chavez, do hereby call upon the citizens of
this great Nation to reflect on and honor the life of this
distinguished leader, veteran, and American.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand
this twenty-eighth day of April, 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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