Some time during this Thanksgiving season, the president will issue a proclamation. It’s a tradition as old as the Republic, as is the fact that no one will pay any attention to it.
Other than ones issued by George Washington, Abraham Lincoln (expressing profound thanks during the bleakest days of the Civil War) and maybe Franklin Roosevelt who, in the worst days of WWII, asked for “a nationwide reading of the Holy Scriptures during the period from Thanksgiving Day to Christmas,” most of these were quickly forgotten, if ever noticed in the first place.
Other than ones issued by George Washington, Abraham Lincoln (expressing profound thanks during the bleakest days of the Civil War) and maybe Franklin Roosevelt who, in the worst days of WWII, asked for “a nationwide reading of the Holy Scriptures during the period from Thanksgiving Day to Christmas,” most of these were quickly forgotten, if ever noticed in the first place.
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