President Kennedy's Thanksgiving Day Proclamation 1963
…Today we give our thanks, most of all, for the ideals of honor and faith we inherit
from our forefathers – for the decency of purpose, steadfastness of resolve and
strength of will, for the courage and the humility, which they possessed and which
we must seek every day to emulate. As we express our gratitude, we must never
forget that the highest appreciation is
not to utter words but to live by them.
Let us therefore proclaim our gratitude to Providence for manifold blessings –
let us be humbly thankful for inherited ideals – and let us resolve to share those
blessings and those ideals with our fellow human beings throughout the world.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOHN F. KENNEDY, President of the United States of
America, in consonance with the joint resolution of the Congress approved
December 26, 1941, 55 Stat. 862 (5 U.S.C. 87b), designating the fourth Thursday
of November in each year as Thanksgiving Day, do hereby proclaim Thursday,
November 28, 1963, as a day of national thanksgiving.
On that day let us gather in sanctuaries dedicated to worship and in homes blessed
by family affection to express our gratitude for the glorious gifts of God; and let
us earnestly and humbly pray that He will continue to guide and sustain us in the
great unfinished tasks of achieving peace, justice, and understanding among all
men and nations and of ending misery and suffering
wherever they exist.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the
United States of America
to be affixed.
DONE at the City of Washington this fourth day of November, in the year of our
Lord nineteen hundred and sixty-three, and of the Independence of the United States
of America
the one hundred and eighty-eighth.
John F. Kennedy
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