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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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U.S. Sen. Everett Dirksen and representatives from the poultry industry and farm organizations present a turkey to President Lyndon B. Johnson on Nov. 16, 1967.

(Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library/NARA)

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