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In an effort to stimulate the 1939 economy FDR extended the Christmas shopping season a full week by moving Thanksgiving to the third Thursday of November. As recently noted by the National Archives , the Crossville, TN Chronicle and Jennifer Howard in D.C., Ogden Nash basted Roosevelt for his judgment:
Thanksgiving, like Ambassadors,
Cabinet officers and
others smeared with political ointment,
Depends for its existence on
Presidential appointment.
- Ogden Nash
Most Americans agreed and Turkey Day was restored to the last Thursday in 1942.
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Ogden Nash poems copyright © by Linell Nash Smith and Isabel Nash Eberstadt
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