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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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