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How Did Thanksgiving End Up On The Fourth Thursday?

President Roosevelt celebrating Thanksgiving with polio patients at the Warm Springs Foundation for Infantile Paralysis Sufferers the Friday <em>after</em> the national holiday in 1938. (Bettmann/Corbis/AP)
President Roosevelt celebrating Thanksgiving with polio patients at the Warm Springs Foundation for Infantile Paralysis Sufferers the Friday after the national holiday in 1938. (Bettmann/Corbis/AP)

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