Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

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

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

I hereby extend the provisions of Executive Order No. 9177 of May 30, 1942, to the United States Maritime Commission and the Administrator o...