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I do hereby proclaim that the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States was repealed on the fifth day of December, 1933.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

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Proclamation 2065—Date of Repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment

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