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DEDICATION DAY, 1946
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A PROCLANATION
WHEREAS November 19, 1946, marks the eighty-third
anniversary of the delivery by Abraham Lincoln of the immortal
Gottysburg Address; and
WHEREAS those classic lines are enshrined forever in
the hearts of all Americans; and
WHEREAS President Lincoln's closing resolve "that this
nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that
government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not
perish from the earth" has a special and solemn connotation in
world affairs at the present moment; and
WHEREAS the Congress by a joint resolution approved
August 7, 1946 (Public Law 645, 79th Congress), has designated,
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and has requested the President to proclaim, November 19, 1946,
as Dedication Day:
NOW, THEREFORE, I, HARRY S. TRUMAN, President of the
United States of America, do proclaim November 19, 1946, the
anniversary of the Gettysburg Address, as Dedication Day, and I
urge the people of the United States to observe that day by read-
ing the address in public assemblages throughout the United States
and its possessions, on our ships at sea, and wherever the American
flag flies.
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 thirtieth day of
October in the year of our
Lord nineteen hundred and
forty-six, and of the
Independence of the United
(s E A L)
States of America the one
hundred and seventy-first.
By the President:
HARRY S. TRUMAN
JAMES F. BYBNES
Secretary of State