A Thanksgiving proclamation
The Friday Letter / No. 518 / Novdmber 23, 2022Following our custom of many years, we present on this Thanksgiving a Proclamation from the President:
Presidential Proclamation 2673, Thanksgiving Day, 1945
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
In this year of our victory, absolute and final, over German fascism and Japanese militarism; in this time of peace so long awaited, which we are determined with all the United Nations to make permanent; on this day of our abundance, strength, and achievement; let us give thanks to Almighty Providence for these exceeding blessings.
We have won them with the courage and the blood of our soldiers, sailors, and airmen. We have won them by the sweat and ingenuity of our workers, farmers, engineers, and industrialists. We have won them with the devotion of our women and children. We have bought them with the treasure of our rich land. But above all we have won them because we cherish freedom beyond riches and even more than life itself.
We give thanks with the humility of free men, each knowing it was the might of no one arm but of all together by which we were saved. Liberty knows no race, creed, or class in our country or in the world. In unity we found our first weapon, for without it, both here and abroad, we were doomed. None have known this better than our very gallant dead, none better than their comrade, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Our thanksgiving has the humility of our deep mourning for them, our vast gratitude to them.
Triumph over the enemy has not dispelled every difficulty. Many vital and far-reaching decisions await us as we strive for a just and enduring peace. We will not fail if we preserve, in our own land and throughout the world, that same devotion to the essential freedoms and rights of mankind which sustained us throughout the war and brought us final victory.
Now, Therefore, I, Harry S. Truman, President of the United States of America, in consonance with the joint resolution of Congress approved December 26, 1941, do hereby proclaim Thursday November 22, 1945, as a day of national thanksgiving. May we on that day, in our homes and in our places of worship, individually and as groups, express our humble thanks to Almighty God for the abundance of our blessings and may we on that occasion rededicate ourselves to those high principles of citizenship for which so many splendid Americans have recently given all.
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 12th day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred forty-five and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventieth.
HARRY S. TRUMAN
November 12, 1945
Election fraud update
With broken machinery and 2-hour lines to vote, problems with voting and tabulation in Republican-rich Maricopa County that led some voters so frustrated they gave up has put the results of the Arizona county's election results in question. The irregularities have led to two Arizona counties delaying their vote certification until the Nov. 28 deadline. One of the largest counties in the country, Maricopa's reported votes could have affected Republican Kari Lake's razor-thin loss for the governorship.
Three judges of the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a lower court's order to depose Biden Administration officials in a lawsuit over its collusion with social media companies to censor debate of the Wuhan coronavirus, election fraud, and the Post's reporting on Hunter Biden's computer. Two of the judges are G.W. Bush appointees: Edith Joy Brown Clement and Leslie Southwick. The other is an Obama appointee, Stephen Higginson.
It must be true, because CBS News said so. More than two years after joining other legacy media in censoring the Hunter Biden laptop computer scandal – which very well could have turned the 2020 presidential election – CBS News now says its contents are true and unmolested. This is a switch from its earlier reports that claimed, with no evidence, that Hunter's computer was hacked by Russians.
Georgia's fraud-denier governor, Brian Kemp, joins other Republicans in campaigning for Herschel Walker in his Senate race against incumbent Raphael Warnock. Although Georgia made some tepid corrections to its election laws, its system remains a Rube Goldberg hodgepodge of widely varied practices among its 159 counties (second only to Texas in number with 254). Some Democrat-infested counties opened for early voting on Wednesday. Early voting, unattended drop boxes and no-excuse absentee voting – major sources of election fraud – are still practiced in Georgia.
How they voted
Republican Senators who voted to advance the ill-named Respect for Marriage Act, which will allow homosexual activists to sue private businesses that refuse to provide services for same-sex unions the activsts call marriages:
Sens. Roy Blunt of Missouri (retiring)
Richard Burr of North Carolina (retiring)
Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia
Susan Collins of Maine
Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming
Rob Portman of Ohio (retiring)
Mitt Romney of Utah
Dan Sullivan of Alaska
Thom Tillis of North Carolina (retiring)
Joni Ernst of Iowa
Lisa Murkowski of Alaska
Todd Young of Indiana
The bill, when signed into law, will codify and expand rights conferred in Obergefell v. Hodges
The Friday Letter is published at USSA News. Our next post will appear either Dec. 2 or Dec. 9. A blessed Thanksgiving to all.