A National Day of Unity, 7003-7004 [2021-01748]

Agencies

• Executive Office of the President

[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 14 (Monday, January 25, 2021)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 7003-7004]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-01748]



[[Page 7001]]

Vol. 86

Monday,

No. 14

January 25, 2021

Part II





The President





-----------------------------------------------------------------------



Proclamation 10140--A National Day of Unity



Proclamation 10141--Ending Discriminatory Bans on Entry to the United 
States



Executive Order 13985--Advancing Racial Equity and Support for 
Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government



Executive Order 13986--Ensuring a Lawful and Accurate Enumeration and 
Apportionment Pursuant to the Decennial Census



Executive Order 13987--Organizing and Mobilizing the United States 
Government To Provide a Unified and Effective Response To Combat COVID-
19 and To Provide United States Leadership on Global Health and 
Security



Executive Order 13988--Preventing and Combating Discrimination on the 
Basis of Gender Identity or Sexual Orientation


                        Presidential Documents 



Federal Register / Vol. 86 , No. 14 / Monday, January 25, 2021 / 
Presidential Documents

___________________________________________________________________

Title 3--
The President

[[Page 7003]]

                Proclamation 10140 of January 20, 2021

                
A National Day of Unity

                By the President of the United States of America

                A Proclamation

                I am humbled before God and my fellow Americans to take 
                the sacred oath of President of our beloved country.

                Today, we celebrate the triumph of democracy after an 
                election that saw more Americans voting than ever 
                before in our Nation's history, and where the will of 
                the people has been heard and heeded.

                We do so at a moment of great peril and promise for our 
                Nation. A once-in-a-century deadly pandemic. A historic 
                and deepening economic crisis. Calls for racial justice 
                some 400 years in the making. A climate crisis with 
                force and fury. We also feel the rise in political 
                extremism and domestic terrorism--unleashed just days 
                ago on our Capitol, the citadel of freedom, but brewing 
                long before--that we must confront and defeat.

                Yet in this dire moment, democracy prevailed. On this 
                day, we set our sights on the Nation we know we can and 
                must be. I am honored to do so alongside Vice President 
                Kamala Harris, the first woman who has taken the oath 
                to serve in elected national office, and who will not 
                be the last. Together, we know that to overcome the 
                challenges before all of us, to restore the soul of 
                America, requires the beating heart of a democracy: 
                Unity.

                With unity, we can save lives and beat this pandemic. 
                We can build our economy back better and include 
                everyone. We can right wrongs and root out systemic 
                racism in our country. We can confront the climate 
                crisis with American jobs and ingenuity. We can protect 
                our democracy by seeing each other not as adversaries 
                but as fellow Americans. For the world to see, with 
                unity we can lead not just by the example of our power, 
                but by the power of our example.

                As we start the hard work to be done, I pray this 
                moment gives us the strength to rebuild this house of 
                ours upon a rock that can never be washed away. And, as 
                in the Prayer of St. Francis, for where there is 
                discord, union; where there is doubt, faith, where 
                there is darkness, light.

                On this Inauguration Day I swear an oath to be a 
                President for all Americans and ask every American to 
                join me in this cause of democracy. May this be the 
                story that unites us as fellow Americans and as the 
                United States of America.

                NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of 
                the United States of America, by the authority vested 
                in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United 
                States, do hereby proclaim January 20, 2021, a National 
                Day of Unity and call upon the people of our Nation to 
                join together and write the next story of our 
                democracy--an American story of decency and dignity, of 
                love and of healing, and of greatness and of goodness.

[[Page 7004]]

                IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 
                twentieth day of January, in the year of our Lord two 
                thousand twenty-one, and of the Independence of the 
                United States of America the two hundred and forty-
                fifth.
                
                
                    (Presidential Sig.)

[FR Doc. 2021-01748
Filed 1-22-21; 11:15 am]
Billing code 3295-F1-P