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What did FDR try to do to Thanksgiving?
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Franklin Roosevelt change Thanksgiving from the third Thursday in November to the fourth Thursday in November.

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He changed it from the LAST Thursday to the fourth Thursday in 1939. That really upset a lot of publishers who already had calendars printed showing Thanksgiving on November 30. Retailers were happy because they got an extra week for Christmas sales. From 1863 when Lincoln declared the first National Thanksgiving Day, it was not a national holiday until declared by the President each year. But it had always been the Last Thursday in November. In 1940 and 1941 Roosevelt also declared Thanksgiving on the second-to-last Thursday (I didn't save those calendars, but I think that would have made it on the 21st and 20th). Then in December of 1941 Congress passed legislation setting the date to be the fourth Thursday for all future years.

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