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On the recordNovember 6, 1962
Let us renew the spirit of the Pilgrims at the first Thanksgiving, lonely in an inscrutable wilderness, facing the dark unknown with a faith borne of their dedication to God and a fortitude drawn from their sense that all men were brothers.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Proclamation 3505—Thanksgiving Day, 1962

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