POTD 11/27/24
NON-PRESIDENTIAL PARDONS - Just like the White House Turkeys that presidents have been pardoning for many years - these Tom turkeys have immunity from the Thanksgiving table. There is some speculation as to which president was the first to start the turkey "pardoning" tradition - but it certainly goes back at to least Kennedy. Some have said President Lincoln's 1863 clemency to a turkey recorded in an 1865 dispatch by a White House reporter was the actual origin of the pardoning ceremony. Rest easy Tom ;-)
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