Thanksgiving in America, Random Thoughts « QuarkScrew

There are legends that this tradition started with Lincoln, and more credible ones that pin it on Truman, but the earliest actual record of it happening start with President George H.W. Bush in 1989 â€" and that, too, ... The other secular aspects of Turkey Day don't much appeal to me personally â€" I don't much care about a the very American spectacles of parades, or American football games, or shopping extravaganzas per se (though bargains are always nice). ...