John Kennedy actually said...

Let us therefore proclaim our gratitude to Providence for manifold blessings--let us be humbly thankful for inherited ideals--and let us resolve to share those blessings and those ideals with our fellow human beings throughout the world.

Context

Proclamation 3560—Thanksgiving Day, 1963

11/04/1963

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