BILL NUMBER: SCR 98	ENROLLED
	BILL TEXT

	ADOPTED IN SENATE  AUGUST 11, 2014
	ADOPTED IN ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 7, 2014
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JULY 1, 2014

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Wyland

                        MARCH 10, 2014

   Relative to Gerald Ford Day.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SCR 98, Wyland. Gerald Ford Day.
   This measure would recognize April 5 of each year as Gerald Ford
Day, to honor the 38th President of the United States during the
anniversary of Operation Babylift, which he authorized to evacuate
orphans from South Vietnam at the end of the Vietnam War.



   WHEREAS, President Gerald R. Ford served as the 38th President of
the United States and was a United States Navy World War II Veteran
and Veterans of Foreign Wars Life Member; and
   WHEREAS, President Gerald R. Ford, in a profound humanitarian act,
authorized a $2,000,000 fund and announced that the United States
government would begin evacuating Asian American orphans from Saigon
on a series of 30 planned flights, resulting in more than 2,700
children adopted in the United States; and
   WHEREAS, Operation Babylift was the name given to the mass
evacuation on April 3 through April 26, 1975, of orphans from South
Vietnam at the end of the Vietnam War; and
   WHEREAS, On April 5, 1975, President Ford went the extra mile by
flying from the Palm Springs Airport to the San Francisco
International Airport to welcome the babies. One of the babies he
carried off the evacuation aircraft, Nikki Logan, grew up and joined
the United States Marines to give back and to serve her country; and
   WHEREAS, Operation Babylift was one of the greatest humanitarian
acts of the 20th century with a positive impact on some 4,000 babies'
lives worldwide; now, therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Senate of the State of California, the Assembly
thereof concurring, That the Legislature recognizes April 5 of each
year as Gerald Ford Day, in honor of his heroic stand to bring our
children home; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate transmit copies of this
resolution to the author for appropriate distribution.