Richard Nixon actually said...

I call upon all Americans to assemble in homes and places of worship on this day, to join in offering gratitude for the countless blessings our people enjoy, and to embrace the elderly and less fortunate as special celebrants in the day’s events, loving them as we have been loved.

Context

Proclamation 4170—Thanksgiving Day, 1972

11/16/1972

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