Presidents pardoning turkeys: Executive clemency most fowl

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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 John F. Kennedy pardoned a turkey on Nov. 19, 1963, stating “Let’s Keep him going.”

(John F. Kennedy Presidential Library/NARA)

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