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On the recordOctober 21, 1906
We should be both reverently thankful for what we have received, and earnestly bent upon turning it into a means of grace and not of destruction.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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Proclamation 665—Thanksgiving Day, 1906

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