Now, Therefore, I, Harry S. Truman, President of the United States of America, under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Congress in Public Resolution 67, approved May 3, 1940, do hereby designate Sunday, May 18, 1947, as 'I Am an American Day,'
Proclamation 2718—'I Am an American Day', 1947
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