Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

I think that people who insist on the limitations in Section 11 may, with some justification, be charged with a desire to return to boondoggling.

Letter Against Limitations on Federal Financial Participation in Work Projects.

05/19/1940

More Franklin Roosevelt Quotes

we should lift up our hearts in thanksgiving

I do hereby proclaim Thursday the twenty-third day of November 1944 a day of national thanksgiving

I suggest a nationwide reading of the Holy Scriptures during the period from Thanksgiving Day to Christmas

it is fitting that we give thanks with special fervor to our Heavenly Father for the mercies we have received individually and as a nation