Each year before Thanksgiving, the President of the United States formally pardons a live turkey presented to him by the National Turkey Federation. It's a tradition that's seemingly been around forever, and while the NTF has been supplying the White House with holiday birds since the 1940s, the pardoning bit is actually a pretty new development.
Each year before Thanksgiving, the President of the United States formally pardons a live turkey presented to him by the National Turkey Federation. It's a tradition that's seemingly been around forever, and while the NTF has been supplying the White House with holiday birds since the 1940s, the pardoning bit is actually a pretty new development.