Show President Roosevelt's Proclamation Thanksgiving The text of President FranklIn D Roosevelt's Thanks Thanks- I giving pi follows I Franklin D Roosevelt president of the United States of AmerIca hereby desIgnate Thursday the day day of November 1934 as a day of thanksgIvIng for the people of the natIOn Thus to set aSide in III the autumn of each year a day on I which to gIve thanks to Almighty God for the blessings of life IS a wise and revel ent custom long cherIshed by our people It ItIS IS fitting that We should again agam observe ve this custom DurIng the past year we have been given courage and fOl fortitude to meet the pI problems obi ems WhICh confronted us m in our national life Our sense of social Justice has deepened We have been gIven vISIOn to make new for human welfare and hapPIness and m in a spirit of mutual happiness we have cooperated to translate VISion into realIty More greatly have we turned our hearts and minds to thIngs spIrItually We can truly say What rt It a natIOn If It gaIn the whole world and lose Its own sour soul In wItness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed Done In the CIty of WashIngton this fIfteenth day of November In the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty four four ty-four and of the Independence of the United States of II America the one hundred and fifty ninth j |