National Day of Unity, 2021 was the firstPresidential proclamation signed byPresidentJoe Biden.

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National Day of Unity, 2021 was proclaimed on January 20, 2021, for Biden's presidential inaugural address.^[4]

The proclamation^[5][6][7] is as follows:

• 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 deadlypandemic. A historic and deepeningeconomic crisis. Calls forracial justice some400 years in the making. Aclimate crisis with force and fury. We also feel the rise inpolitical extremism anddomestic terrorism —unleashed just days ago on ourCapitol, 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 PresidentKamala 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 outsystemic 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 thePrayer of St. Francis, for where there is discord, union; where there is doubt, faith, where there is darkness, light.
• Onthis 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 theConstitution and thelaws 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.
• IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twentieth day of January, in theyear of our Lord two thousand twenty-one, and of theIndependence of the United States of America the two hundred and forty-fifth.

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