THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 6, 2017
EDUCATION AND SHARING DAY, U.S.A., 2017
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BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION
At the core of the American Dream lies the belief that our futures are not pre-determined and can be improved through learning and hard work. On Education and Sharing Day, we acknowledge the critical role of families, schools, and religious and other civic institutions in nurturing in our children the values that enable them to realize the full scope of their ambitions.
Education and Sharing Day recognizes the remarkable efforts of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the Lubavitcher Rebbe, to use values-based education to drive our Nation’s children toward the American Dream.
As an educator, Rabbi Schneerson understood that education is incomplete if it is devoid of moral development. Working through a spirit of optimism, he strived to teach children to be honest, civil, respectful of differences, and self-disciplined, in addition to being intellectually rigorous.
On April 18, 1978, our Nation’s first Education Day, U.S.A., Rabbi Schneerson wrote that “we can neither be satisfied nor slacken our efforts” so long as “there is still one child that does not receive an adequate education.” These words inspire us today, as they did then, to empower our children and share with each of them the opportunity and promise of America. It is up to us to support our children in realizing their hopes and to encourage them to reach their fullest potential.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim April 7, 2017, as “Education and Sharing Day, U.S.A.” I call upon government officials, educators, volunteers, and all the people of the United States to observe this day with appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
sixth day of April, in the year of our Lord two thousand seventeen, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and forty-first.
DONALD J TRUMP
5737 was the 1st year, and the rebbe spoke about it. and it has happend every year since.
(I wonder how the hillary goers are taking this)
thank you Mr President
you are correct, but his lack of enthusiasm & interest is fairly obvious from his style of ‘proclaiming’ it. It was very easy for it to pass by unnoticed.
And this is the way Obama signed it:
“N WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this fourteenth day of April, in the year of our Lord two thousand eleven,
BARACK OBAMA”
Yeah, but that was before Trump Made America Great Again.
I’m pretty sure col wrote up an article about it last year. As the article said, it was continuation of the other presidents.
To comment #1 it actually was look back at collive post from last year and you’ll see that it was observed by Obama i believe every single year of his Presdiency!!
as I don’t recall if it was mentioned or observed for most of the Obama years.