Proclamation 4803—Thanksgiving Day, 1980
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
The greatest bounty of our Nation is the bounty of our heritage our diversity as immigrants and descendants of immigrants, our common identity as Americans.
We have set aside one day a year to give thanks for all that we have. Yet Thanksgiving is more than just a day of celebration. It is also a commemoration of the day America's earliest inhabitants sat down to table with European colonists.
That occasion was historic not only because it established a national holiday, but because it marked the start of a national tradition of cooperation, unity and tolerance.
Even in times of trial and frustration we have much to be thankful for, in our personal lives and in our Nation. As we pause on Thanksgiving to offer thanks to God, we should not forget that we also owe thanks to this country's forefathers who had the vision to join together in Thanksgiving, and who gave us so much of the vision of brotherhood that is ours today.
Now, Therefore, I, Jimmy Carter, President of the United States of America, do proclaim Thursday, the 27th of November, 1980 as Thanksgiving Day. I call upon all the people of our Nation to give thanks on that day for the blessings Almighty God has bestowed upon us, and to join the fervent prayer of George Washington who as President asked God to "... impart all the blessings we possess, or ask for ourselves to the whole family of mankind."
In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this thirteenth day of November, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and eighty, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and fifth.
JIMMY CARTER
Jimmy Carter, Proclamation 4803—Thanksgiving Day, 1980 Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/250884
Spot on Doug about Jimmy Carter vs Biden/Harris and many if not majority. Carter loved the U.S. But his pro Big Government policies lead to 20% inflation and 20% interest rates.
ReplyDeleteRegarding Trump: Deeply abhor him calling his opponents stupid and low IQ. But most of his economic and foreign policies are sound and should lead to a more prosperous and safer U.S.