Every president has proclaimed Thanksgiving after Lincoln, although the Thanksgiving date was changed a couple of times. President Franklin Roosevelt changed the date of Thanksgiving one week to the next-to-last Thursday in order to create a longer Christmas shopping season. However, the public was so against this decision, he moved Thanksgiving back to its original date two years later. And in 1941, Thanksgiving was sanctioned by Congress as a legal holiday, as the fourth Thursday in November. Happy Thanksgiving to ALL! |