Proclamation 5138—National Day of Prayer, 1984
12/13/1983
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This is truly a wonderful occasion, the culmination of years of hard work and remarkable generosity.
We owe all we have to our forebears who built our land and our government and gave it to us as a sacred bequest.
We deserve to be proud.
But anyone, from any corner of the world, can come to live in the United States and become an American.