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Harry Truman: Let us pause from our labors for one day in this autumnal season and offer prayers of thanks to the Divine Giver of our…

On the recordNovember 9, 1949
Let us pause from our labors for one day in this autumnal season and offer prayers of thanks to the Divine Giver of our bounty.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

Editor's note · Context

Proclamation 2864—Thanksgiving Day, 1949

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