The Associated Press story announcing the move said Roosevelt "was shattering another precedent," and quoted a town official of Plymouth, Massachusetts, saying the traditional date was "sacred. In addition, it's unclear that the president anticipated how much of a problem his big-government solution would pose to an active, and prescheduled, day of football.
The New York Times reported that on the day of the announcement, "most football managers were too dumbfounded for any comment other than expressions of amazement. Landon said FDR announced his decision "with the omnipotence of a Hitler". Republicans pounced, and used the move to portray Roosevelt as a power-mad tyrant. In an early example of Godwin's Law , FDR's recent presidential opponent Alf Landon said Roosevelt sprung his decision on "an unprepared country with the omnipotence of a Hitler.
Styles Bridges of New Hampshire suggested that while Roosevelt was at it, he should abolish winter. Accordingly, many GOP governors announced they would refuse to move Thanksgiving's date. Kansas Gov. Payne Ratner said that in his state, "we do not destroy tradition merely to gain newspaper headlines. White, who would bestow an enduring name on the controversy.
When New Jersey's Democratic governor, Harry Moore, agreed to move the date, White announced , tongue in cheek, that Atlantic City would celebrate the earlier date only "as 'Franksgiving,' in honor of our President.
In the end, only 23 out of 48 states ended up moving the holiday to FDR's preferred date — with a few others, including Texas and Colorado, celebrating on both Thursdays. The confused turkey in Holiday Inn , unsure of Thanksgiving's date. Screencap: Kimberly Guise. As began, the controversy still raged, with FDR setting that year's date for the particularly early November That year, two-thirds of states opted to go along.
An animated sequence in the film Holiday Inn — which starred Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire and premiered the song "White Christmas" by Irving Berlin — portrayed a confused turkey jumping back and forth between those two dates on the calendar, as you can see above. But in May of that year, Roosevelt changed his mind again, and announced he'd move the date back in The Times reported that FDR "conceded frankly that the Commerce Department had found that expected expansion of retail sales had not occurred" — and he had concluded it was an "experiment" that "had not worked.
A study by professor Robert Urbatsch of Iowa State found that "an earlier Thanksgiving appears to serve as economic stimulus in the labor market. Instead, they were waiting to carve their turkeys on the following Thursday because November 30th in many states was the official Thanksgiving Day. Two Thanksgivings? Why were Americans celebrating a national holiday on two different days?
At the beginning of Franklin Roosevelt's presidency, Thanksgiving was not a fixed holiday; it was up to the President to issue a Thanksgiving Proclamation to announce what date the holiday would fall on.
However, Thanksgiving was always the last Thursday in November because that was the day President Abraham Lincoln observed the holiday when he declared Thanksgiving a national holiday in Franklin Roosevelt continued that tradition, but he soon found that tradition was difficult to keep in extreme circumstances such as the Great Depression. His first Thanksgiving in office, , fell on November 30th, the last day of the month, because November had five Thursdays that year.
Since statistics showed that most people did not do their Christmas shopping until after Thanksgiving, business leaders feared they would lose money, especially during the Depression, because there were only 24 shopping days between Thanksgiving and Christmas. They asked Franklin Roosevelt to make Thanksgiving one week earlier.
President Roosevelt ignored those concerns in , but when Thanksgiving once again threatened to fall on the last day of November in , FDR reconsidered the request and moved the date of Thanksgiving up one week.
Thanksgiving would be held, President Roosevelt proclaimed, on November 23rd and not November 30th. In , President George Washington became the first president to proclaim a Thanksgiving holiday, when, at the request of Congress, he proclaimed November 26, a Thursday, as a day of national thanksgiving for the U.
However, it was not until , when President Abraham Lincoln declared Thanksgiving to officially fall on the last Thursday of November, that the modern holiday was celebrated nationally.
In , Franklin D. Roosevelt departed from tradition by declaring November 23, the next to last Thursday that year, as Thanksgiving Day. For the next two years, Roosevelt repeated the unpopular proclamation, but on November 26, , he admitted his mistake and signed a bill into law officially making the fourth Thursday in November the national holiday of Thanksgiving Day.
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