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In 1971, along with other holidays, President Richard Nixon declared Memorial Day a federal holiday on the last Monday in May.
Who designated the day?
According to Columbia Encyclopedia:
Memorial Day, holiday in the United States observed in late May. Previously designated Decoration Day, it was inaugurated in 1868 by Gen. John A. Logan for the purpose of decorating the graves of Civil War veterans and has since become a day on which all war dead are commemorated.
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Memorial Day was originally called Decoration Day. On May 5, 1868 General John Alexander Logan, national commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, declared there to be a Decoration Day to honor those of the military, both Union and Confederate, who had died during the US Civil War. It was first observed on May 30, 1868, three years after the Civil War ended, at Arlington National Cemetery when the graves of those war dead were decorated with flowers. Decoration Day was officially renamed as Memorial Day in 1967 by legislation signed by President Lyndon Baines Johnson.
Andrew Johnson was the President when Declaration Day was first observed. many years laater, Lyndon Johnson changed its name to Memorial Day.
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President Richard Milhous Nixon did not declare Memorial Day to be a federal holiday. Decoration Day (the original name for Memorial Day) was officially declared by General John Alexander Logan, a Union general during the US Civil War and who was the national commander of the Grand Army of the Republic (a fraternal organization of veterans), on May 5 1868. It was first observed on May 30, 1868 at Arlington National Cemetery. The name Memorial Day was first used in 1882 but it did not become the official name until President Lyndon Baines Johnson signed the legislation changing "Decoration Day" to "Memorial Day" in May of 1967.
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