Proclamation

Newspapers printed the proclamation.

Accordingly they resolved to begin the war without the usual forms of proclamation, and instructed their naval commander to launch ten galleys immediately, and ravage the coasts of the enemy.

Critics had two main concerns with the idea of a presidential proclamation to declare a national Thanksgiving.

In the end, Washington did issue a proclamation, the first presidential proclamation ever, calling for a national “day of public thanksgiving and prayer.”

When he issued the proclamation, he sent copies of that to governors of each of the states, 13 at the time, and asked them to call a national Thanksgiving on the day that Washington specified, the last Thursday of November,” says Melanie Kirkpatrick, author of “Thanksgiving: The Holiday at the Heart of the American Experience.”

After Madison, no U.S. president issued a Thanksgiving proclamation until Abraham Lincoln.

Abraham Lincoln issued a Thanksgiving proclamation in the middle of the U.S. Civil War in 1863 in an effort to unify the country.

The President, who spoke from the Oval Office, stopped short of resorting to an even more dramatic measure urged by some members of Congress: a national emergency proclamation under the 1976 National Emergencies Act.

At the request of the Governor of Texas, I have signed the Disaster Proclamation, which unleashes the full force of government help!

The Tuesday meetings are only thirty minutes now. That proclamation was made in the previous meeting.