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George H.W. Bush: “On Thanksgiving Day, we Americans pause as a Nation to give thanks for the freedom and prosperity with which we have…”

On the recordNovember 16, 1989
On Thanksgiving Day, we Americans pause as a Nation to give thanks for the freedom and prosperity with which we have been blessed by our Creator.
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George H.W. Bush
Republican · Texas

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Proclamation 6073—Thanksgiving Day, 1989

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