A bill was introduced in 1913. In 1916 President Woodrow Wilson went to Spokane to speak in a Father's Day celebration and wanted to make it official, but the Congress resisted, fearing that it would be commercialized. US President Calvin Coolidge recommended in 1924 that the celebration was held, . and a national committee was formed in the 1930s by trade groups in order to legitimize the holiday. Other two bills to introduce the holiday were defeated. In 1957 Maine Senator Margaret Chase Smith wrote a proposal accusing the congress of ignoring fathers for 40 years while honoring mothers, thus "[singling] out just one of our own parents"

In 1966 President Lyndon Johnson made a proclamation for third Sunday of June to be Father's Day,[2] but it wasn't made an official national holiday until President Nixon made a proclamation in 1972.] In addition to Father's Day, International Men's Day is celebrated in many countries on November 19 for men and boys who are not fathers.

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