Biden opens final White House holiday season with turkey pardons
Biden welcomed 2,500 guests to the South Lawn under sunny skies as he cracked jokes about the fates of “Peach” and “Blossom” and sounded wistful tones about the last weeks of his presidency after a half-century in Washington power circles.
Why do presidents pardon turkeys at the White House every Thanksgiving?
The tradition began during the Civil War, when President Abraham Lincoln's son, Tad, asked him to spare a turkey named "Jack," from their holiday meal and he obliged. Years later, President Harry Truman restarted the streak and since then, every president has pardoned at least one bird from the Thanksgiving dinner table.
President Biden pardoned this year's national Thanksgiving turkeys "Peach" and "Blossom" on the South Lawn of the White ...
Peach and Blossom are the two lucky turkeys from Minnesota who escaped a fowl fate of ending up on someone's Thanksgiving ...
In more recent years, the White House Presentation of the National Thanksgiving Turkey has included the "pardoning" of a ...
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Biden pardons turkeys — not named Hunter — at unusually somber White House Thanksgiving eventRetiring President Biden granted a presidential reprieve Monday to poultry named Peach and Blossom at the traditional ...
Hurricane Helene wrought devastation on the Cartner's Christmas Tree Farm in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, ...
President Joe Biden, right, stands with John Zimmerman, left, chair of the National Turkey Federation, his son Grant ...
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