{"id":130117,"date":"2024-11-26T02:23:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T19:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=130117"},"modified":"2024-11-26T02:23:00","modified_gmt":"2024-11-25T19:23:00","slug":"turkey-pardon-biden-pardons-turkeys-for-final-time-as-us-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=130117","title":{"rendered":"Turkey pardon: Biden pardons turkeys for final time as US President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"asset:50ee6321-461f-47dd-a151-86148569f341\">\n<header class=\"ssrcss-j2egdy-Header e14e9ror5\"><span class=\"ssrcss-1de7kuz-HeadingContainer e14e9ror1\"><\/p>\n<h3 type=\"normal\" class=\"ssrcss-ad2rmd-Heading e10rt3ze0\"><span role=\"text\" class=\"ssrcss-189b1h2-HeadlineWrap e14e9ror2\"><span>The strange tradition of presidential turkey pardons<\/span><span class=\"ssrcss-etauer-ServerSideTime e14e9ror0\"><span data-testid=\"timestamp\" class=\"ssrcss-umer6k-Timestamp ekpio9q4\"><span data-testid=\"accessible-timestamp\" class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-1f39n02-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">published at 15:29 Greenwich Mean Time<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"ssrcss-crgz56-Time ekpio9q2\">15:29 GMT<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><\/span><\/header>\n<figure class=\"ssrcss-1vfya96-StyledFigure e34k3c22\">\n<div class=\"ssrcss-ab5fd8-StyledFigureContainer e34k3c21\"><span class=\"ssrcss-ud2cw3-Placeholder etlorgc0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A black and white image of John F Kennedy and other officials with a turkey in front of the White House\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/standard\/640\/cpsprodpb\/vivo\/live\/images\/2024\/11\/25\/9082be1e-1ab0-4474-9198-b16dee1a139c.jpg.webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/standard\/240\/cpsprodpb\/vivo\/live\/images\/2024\/11\/25\/9082be1e-1ab0-4474-9198-b16dee1a139c.jpg.webp 240w, https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/standard\/320\/cpsprodpb\/vivo\/live\/images\/2024\/11\/25\/9082be1e-1ab0-4474-9198-b16dee1a139c.jpg.webp 320w, https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/standard\/480\/cpsprodpb\/vivo\/live\/images\/2024\/11\/25\/9082be1e-1ab0-4474-9198-b16dee1a139c.jpg.webp 480w, https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/standard\/624\/cpsprodpb\/vivo\/live\/images\/2024\/11\/25\/9082be1e-1ab0-4474-9198-b16dee1a139c.jpg.webp 624w, https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/standard\/800\/cpsprodpb\/vivo\/live\/images\/2024\/11\/25\/9082be1e-1ab0-4474-9198-b16dee1a139c.jpg.webp 800w\" width=\"1000\" height=\"562\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/><\/span><span role=\"text\" class=\"ssrcss-tvuve5-StyledFigureCopyright e34k3c20\"><span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-1f39n02-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">Image source, <\/span>Abbie Rowe, White House Photographs \/ John F. Kennedy Presidential Library<\/span><\/div><figcaption class=\"ssrcss-11b8pqw-StyledFigureCaption e1xtk7to0\"><span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-1f39n02-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">Image caption, <\/span><\/p>\n<div spacing=\"6\" class=\"ssrcss-y7krbn-Stack e1y4nx260\">\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">President John F Kennedy pardons a turkey in front of the White House<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Turkey pardons can be traced back to President Abraham Lincoln in 1863.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Historians claim he spared a turkey&#8217;s life after his son, Tad, befriended it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But yearly pardoning became an &#8220;official&#8221; tradition under George H W Bush, when the former president pardoned a turkey in 1989 as animal-rights activists protested nearby.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;&#8216;Reprieve,&#8217; &#8216;keep him going&#8217;, or &#8216;pardon&#8217;: it&#8217;s all the same for the turkey, as long as he doesn&#8217;t end up on the president&#8217;s holiday table,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Other presidents before  Bush Snr did spare birds lives, including President John F Kennedy &#8211; who gave an unofficial pardoning days before his assassination in 1963. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Many people believe the custom was started by Harry Truman in 1947, because he was the first president to receive a turkey on behalf of the poultry industry.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/live\/cn4v51702z8t\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The strange tradition of presidential turkey pardonspublished at 15:29 Greenwich Mean Time 15:29 GMT Image source, Abbie Rowe, White House Photographs \/ John F. 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