I remember reading somewhere that Roosevelt pushed Thanksgiving back a week so there would be one more weekend before Christmas. That way, during the Depression, the merchants who displayed their Christmas merchandise starting at Thanksgiving got an extra week of sales. Nowadays, they put up the Christmas stuff in August or something, so I guess FDR's change of the Thanksgiving date has become totally irrelevant...Is the good ol' USA the only nation in the world to have a holiday that seems to be exclusively dedicated to eating too much and watching TV? (Folly, Dissapation, Sloth and Gluttony; these are a few of my Favorite Sins...)