[Federal Register Volume 59, Number 209 (Monday, October 31, 1994)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 54509-54510]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 94-27132]
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[Federal Register: October 31, 1994]
Presidential Documents
Proclamation 6751 of October 27, 1994
Thanksgiving Day, 1994
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
As the end of another year draws closer, we are again
filled with thankfulness for the blessings of a
fruitful land. For more than 200 years, Americans have
welcomed autumn's harvest with gratitude and goodwill.
On Thanksgiving Day, we set aside our daily routines to
acknowledge the bounty and mercy of Divine Providence.
With full hearts, we bask in the warmth of family and
community gatherings, and we reflect on the challenge,
responsibility, and privilege that are ours as citizens
of these United States.
It is our great fortune to live in a country of
abundance and promise--a land of freedom for all. Still
only a few generations removed from our Nation's
founders, we continue to blaze a trail toward stability
and justice. Aspiring to lift ourselves closer to God's
grace, we remain determined to ease the pain of the
many people who know only poverty and despair. Clearly,
ours is an unfinished journey.
Our destination must be to create the means for every
one of us to prosper, to enjoy sound education,
meaningful work experience, protective health care, and
personal security. It is our responsibility to prompt
the national conscience so that by fostering virtue,
wisdom, and moral values, we rejoice in our growth as a
people.
Our challenge is to give assistance and encouragement
that are equitable and just and that alleviate human
suffering. Our responsibility is to nurture the
processes of peace and equal human rights everywhere
with compassion and concern. And like other pioneers
before us, it is our privilege to be able to aim toward
lofty goals.
Across this land as people gather together with loved
ones to savor the bounty of the Thanksgiving Holiday, I
invite each family, each religious congregation, each
community and city, to celebrate your experience of the
American heritage. Reach out in friendship and
cooperation to the people of your hometown. Take
responsibility for bringing harmony and hope, peace and
prosperity to all of the inhabitants of our world.
Share the privileges of freedom and the challenge of
working for a better world.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, WILLIAM J. CLINTON, President of the
United States of America, by virtue of the authority
vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United
States, do hereby proclaim Thursday, November 24, 1994,
as a National Day of Thanksgiving. I urge the citizens
of this great Nation to continue this beloved tradition
and to strengthen it by gathering in their homes and
places of worship to express their heartfelt gratitude
for the many blessings of our lives.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
twenty-seventh day of October, in the year of our Lord
nineteen hundred and ninety-four, and of the
Independence of the United States of America the two
hundred and nineteenth.
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[FR Doc. 94-27132
Filed 10-28-94; 11:20 am]
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