Move Thanksgiving to Friday? That's what F.B. Haviland asked President Hoover in 1929.
Didn't happen. But while we're on the subject, ever wonder why we carve our gobblers on the fourth Thursday of November? Hint: It's not because Thanksgiving Thursday is more alliterative than Thanksgiving Friday.
In 1789, President Washington declared Thurs., Nov. 26, as a "Day of Publick Thanksgivin,"according to the National Archives.