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Presidents pardoning turkeys: Executive clemency most fowl

Part photo op, part unusual tradition, the President pardons a turkey every Thanksgiving.

Federal News Network Staff

November 21, 2017 1:00 pm

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President Dwight D. Eisenhower feeds a cranberry to a turkey he received from the Turkey Foundation on Nov. 4, 1954, at the White House.

(Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library /NARA)

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