The President's News Conference
02/16/1949
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Done at the City of Washington this 30th day of March in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-eight
I am proud, as other Americans are, of the contributions which have been made to our democracy by Americans of Swedish origin, and I believe...
For these reasons, I am unable to approve this joint resolution.
I hereby designate Sunday, May 16, 1948, as I Am An American Day