On the recordMarch 29, 1948
Done at the City of Washington this 30th day of March in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-eight
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presidency.ucsb.eduDone at the City of Washington this 30th day of March in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-eight
Proclamation 2777—I Am an American Day, 1948
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