Rosalynn Carter and President Jimmy Carter made a similar trip in 1978 to pardon a turkey in a small zoo at Evans Farm Inn in Virginia.. The first official presidential pardon for a Thanksgiving ...

The White House turkey pardoning ceremony, a long-held Thanksgiving tradition formalized 77 years ago, traces its origins back decades further. Since the 1800s, it has been customary for the ...

In 2017, his first turkey pardoning as president, Trump joked that, while seeking to reverse many of the actions taken by predecessor Barack Obama, "I have been informed by the White House Counsel ...

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.

The turkey pardon was made official in 1989 under former President George H.W. Bush, who was continuing an informal tradition started by President Harry Truman in 1947.

The first president to receive a live turkey was Harry S. Truman, from the National Turkey Federation.As a result, he is often credited as the first to pardon a turkey. But the 33rd president does ...

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 ...

Trump Pardons Turkey Again, Trying To Keep Things Normal Amid The Abnormal The strange tradition of a president pardoning a turkey before Thanksgiving happened again despite Trump holding few ...

President Biden pardoned 2022's National Thanksgiving Turkey, Chocolate, and the alternate named Chip. His ritual featured a bevy of Thanksgiving puns as he winked at the recent 2022 midterm ...

Turkey pardon WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 25: The National Thanksgiving turkeys, Blossom and Peach, wait before being pardoned by U.S. President Joe Biden during a ceremony on the South Lawn of the ...

Turkey Pardons, The Stuffing of Historic Legend. A Presidential Tradition Began Way Back but Not So Long Ago. November 21, 2007. By Monica Hesse.

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." ...