Speaking of throwing animals a bone, Lincoln once let a turkey off death row. You could say it was a pardon. Why did he do that? Why did Abraham Lincoln pardon a turkey? In general, Lincoln was a ...

Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. It is believed Abraham Lincoln was the first president to pardon a turkey in 1863. Lincoln's son Tad allegedly became attached to the turkey ...

JD Vance and his family have officially moved into the vice presidential residence at the Naval Observatory — and they are ...

Abraham Lincoln's eight-year-old son is believed ... That's the origin story of the annual White House tradition of the presidential turkey pardon that occurs each fall. Maureen Mackey and ...

The once poor kid who escaped from a Cuban immigrant housing project, managed to study at a university, became a respected ...

(Carter excluded deserters.) Abraham Lincoln pardoned former Confederate soldiers, though he attached conditions to the pardons. “All these pardons, however, were for specific acts, rather than ...

Biden was not the first president to issue a preemptive pardon — according to the White House Historical Association, Abraham Lincoln issued preemptive pardons for Confederates before the end of ...

National Park Service employees dust the statue of President Abraham Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial in May 2022. (Salwan Georges/The Washington Post) I decided, the other evening, to walk to the ...

President Abraham Lincoln followed suit, issuing a proclamation offering pardon and amnesty to any members of the Confederacy who would put down arms and take an oath of loyalty. Several years ...

magnanimity and unity that distinguished the historic addresses delivered by Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln. Instead, Trump took “the road less traveled,” to borrow from Robert Frost ...

Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson pardoned Confederate soldiers and President Gerald Ford pardoned their general, Robert E. Lee. Some pardons are seen as being more motivated by self ...