[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 226 (Wednesday, November 22, 2000)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 70277-70278]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
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                Proclamation 7381 of November 17, 2000

                
Thanksgiving Day, 2000

                By the President of the United States of America

                A Proclamation

                We have much to be grateful for this Thanksgiving Day. 
                Our Nation is free, prosperous, and at peace. The 
                remarkable growth in human knowledge and technological 
                innovation offers real hope for defeating the age-old 
                enemies of humanity: poverty, famine, and disease. Our 
                dynamic economy continues to generate millions of new 
                jobs, and, as wages rise and unemployment falls to its 
                lowest level in more than a generation, millions of 
                American families are sharing in the bounty of this 
                great land for the first time.

                Sharing in God's blessings is at the heart of 
                Thanksgiving and at the core of the American spirit. At 
                Plymouth in 1621, the Pilgrims celebrated their first 
                harvest in the New World thanks to the generosity of 
                their Native American neighbors. In return, the 
                Pilgrims invited these tribal members to share in their 
                harvest festival. At Thanksgiving this year and every 
                year, in worship services and family celebrations 
                across our country, Americans carry on that tradition 
                of giving, sharing not only with family and friends, 
                but also with those in need throughout their 
                communities.

                Every generation of Americans has benefited from the 
                generosity, talents, efforts, and contributions of 
                their fellow citizens. All of us have been enriched by 
                the diverse cultures, traditions, and beliefs of the 
                millions of people who, by birth or choice, have come 
                to call America their home. All of us are beneficiaries 
                of our founders' wisdom and of the service and 
                sacrifice of our men and women in uniform. While 
                Americans are an independent people, we are 
                interdependent as well, and our greatest achievements 
                are those we have accomplished together.

                As we celebrate Thanksgiving, let us remember with 
                gratitude that despite our differences in background, 
                age, politics, or race, each of us is a member of our 
                larger American family and that, working together, 
                there is nothing we cannot accomplish in this promising 
                new century.

                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 23, 2000, 
                as a National Day of Thanksgiving. I encourage all the 
                people of the United States to assemble in their homes, 
                places of worship, and community centers to share the 
                spirit of fellowship and prayer and to reinforce the 
                ties of family and community; to express heartfelt 
                thanks to God for our many blessings; and to reach out 
                in gratitude and friendship to our brothers and sisters 
                across this land who, together, comprise our great 
                American family.

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                IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 
                seventeenth day of November, in the year of our Lord 
                two thousand, and of the Independence of the United 
                States of America the two hundred and twenty-fifth.

                    (Presidential Sig.)

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