FDR: “I do hereby proclaim that the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution…”

On the recordDecember 4, 1933

I do hereby proclaim that the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States was repealed on the fifth day of December, 1933.

Said by

Democratic · New York

Source

Proclamation 2065—Date of Repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment

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