Harry Truman actually said...

And I urge Federal, State, and local officials and patriotic, civic, and educational organizations to plan and hold, on or about May 18, exercises designed to help our citizens better to understand their privileges and responsibilities as participants in our representative democracy,

Context

Proclamation 2718—'I Am an American Day', 1947

02/28/1947

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