[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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