29 October 2016

More history for the day: 1947: Truman asks for food restraint

From The New York Times:

On 5 October 1947, in the first televised White House address, President Truman asked Americans to refrain from eating meat on Tuesdays and poultry on Thursdays to help stockpile grain for starving people in Europe.

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