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The policy of issuing proclamations calling for the observance of special days or events is in 1 CFR Section 19.4, which allows for the responsibility for the preparation and presentation of proposed proclamations calling for the observance of special days, or events to the Director of Management and Budget to such agencies as deemed appropriate.
Presidents continued to issue Thanksgiving proclamations on an annual basis, usually for the same time of year, [52] although in 1865 Andrew Johnson picked the first Thursday in December. [ 55 ] On June 28, 1870, President Ulysses S. Grant signed into law the Holidays Act that made Thanksgiving a yearly "appointed or remembered" federal holiday ...
[9] [10] (Before that in the 20th century, the phrase "Thanksgiving Day" had been used in the prose of the presidential proclamation only in Calvin Coolidge's first, among his six.) In November 1942, Roosevelt's proclamation made mention of the joint resolution, and of the date it established as Thanksgiving Day, and called for observation "in ...
Presidential Thanksgiving proclamations are always a reflection of the office, the country and the stakes of the given cultural moment
In the United States, Thanksgiving is an annual tradition that was federally formalized through an 1863 presidential proclamation by Abraham Lincoln, but was implemented as state legislation since the nation's founding.
TOPSHOT – US President George W. Bush pets “May” the turkey during the pardoning of the Thanksgiving turkey 20 November 2007 in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC.
Thanksgiving has been a tradition since. At the height of the Civil War, Lincoln issued a proclamation to urge Americans to celebrate their blessings. Thanksgiving has been a tradition since.
On October 3, 1789, at the request of the U.S. Congress, President George Washington issued a Thanksgiving proclamation designating November 26, 1789 as a day of "public thanksgiving and prayer" for the "People of the United States”.