President Ronald Reagan's pivot away from a reporter's question about possibly pardoning those involved in the 1980s arms-sales affair is a key moment in the history of the event taking place Tuesday.

Joe Biden is one year older Monday. At 81, he's the oldest president in U.S. history. But some things apparently never get old, notably the strange tradition of presidential turkey pardons, which ...

Stephanie Sy: Actually, that's as false as Tofurky. Truman was the first president to receive a turkey from The National Turkey Federation 75 years ago, but there's no record of a pardon.

Not quite. Lincoln did spare a turkey, but it was for Christmas not Thanksgiving.. About 100 years before Kennedy's inadvertent pardon, an 1865 dispatch from White House reporter Noah Brooks read ...

Every year, the U.S. has an official Presidential turkey pardon ceremony, saving a live bird from a Thanksgiving table. Where did the tradition start? The post Here’s Why the President Pardons a ...

As a result, he is often credited as the first to pardon a turkey. But the 33rd president does not hold that title. The turkeys Truman received actually met the fate of becoming a holiday feast.

A lame-duck president "pardoned" a turkey Monday. "They tell me there's 2,500 people here today looking for a pardon," President Biden joked at a White House ceremony on the South Lawn.

The president makes a few jokes and lets a turkey go free in what became a formalized occurrence in the 1980s. But the turkey lobby's actual goal, as most likely know, is to get people to eat more ...

It appears it was John F. Kennedy in 1963. An NBC News archive search found a Los Angeles Times article dated Nov. 20, 1963 with the headline, "Turkey gets presidential pardon." ...

It is believed Abraham Lincoln was the first president to pardon a turkey in 1863. One story goes that Lincoln's son Tad became attached to the turkey that was fated to be the family's Christmas ...