06-13-2010, 03:27 PM
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see you later, I'm gone
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Join Date: Oct 2002
Posts: 14,164
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Quote:
Originally Posted by dig420
For sure, Obama is the first President to endorse physical fitness.
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http://www.fitness.gov/about_history.htm
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Date: 7/16/56
Chair:
Vice President Richard M. Nixon,
Chairman
Shane McCarthy,
Executive Director,
1956-61
Event/Program:
President Eisenhower creates the President's Council on Youth Fitness with cabinet-level status. The Executive Order specifies "one" objective. The first Council identifies itself as a "catalytic agent" concentrating on creating public awareness. A President's Citizens-Advisory Committee on Fitness of American Youth is confirmed to give advice to Council.
Administration: John F. Kennedy
Date: 1961-63
Chair:
Charles (Bud) Wilkinson,
Consultant to the President on Physical Fitness,
1961-63.
Richard Swider,
Council Administrator
Event/Program:
President Kennedy changes the name to the President's Council on Physical Fitness to address all age groups. The President amended the Executive Order by one objective - enlisting the aid of citizens, civic groups, etc. With the aid of the Advertising Council, Inc., a nationwide public service advertising campaign was launched. President Kennedy 'walks the talk' taking the 50 mile hikes. State demonstration centers were designed in 1961 to showcase model elementary and secondary schools. In that same year, President Kennedy speaks at the Conference on Physical Fitness of Youth. Regional clinics and educational films are initiated.
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......... and on and on up and through George the 2nds reign
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