Proclamation 3525

by John F. Kennedy

By the President of the United States of America A PROCLAMATION. Whereas Sir Winston Churchill, a son of America though a subject of Britain, has been throughout his life a firm and steadfast friend of the American people and the American Nation; and Whereas he has freely offered his hand and his faith in days of adversity as well as triumph; and Whereas his bravery, charity and valor, both in war and in peace, have been a flame of inspiration in freedom's darkest hour; and Whereas his life has shown that no adversary can overcome, and no fear can deter, free men in the defense of their freedom; and Whereas he has expressed with unsurpassed power and splendor the aspirations of peoples everywhere for dignity and freedom; and Whereas he has by his art as an historian and his judgment as a statesman made the past the servant of the future; Now, Therefore, I, John F. Kennedy, President of the United States of America, under the authority contained in an Act of the 88th Congress, do hereby declare Sir Winston Churchill an honorary citizen of the United States of America. 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 ninth day of April, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and sixty-three, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eighty-seventh. John F. Kennedy By the President: George W. Ball, Acting Secretary of State.

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  − Public Law 88-6, April 9, 1963.  ( 88th Congress, 1st Session, 77 Stat. 5. )

• Remarks by President John F. Kennedy

• As given at the White House, Washington D.C., April 9, 1963;

• Response by Sir Winston Churchill

• As given at 28 Hyde Park Gate, London, April 6, 1963;
• As read by Randolph S. Churchill at the White House, April 9, 1963