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Presidential turkey pardons through the years

Filed at 1:50 pm, Wednesday November 22nd 2006
by Arlen Parsa

Every year for a long-ass time, the President has a pre-Thanksgiving event, where they “pardon” the turkey present. It’s a feel-good event, really no substance. Let us review great moments in Presidential turkey-pardoning.

Truman

Eisenhower

Kennedy

Johnson

Nixon

Ford

(No photos exist of Carter performing the thanskgiving pardon.)

Reagan

Bush Sr

Clinton

President Bush and the turkey in 2001. Clearly off to a good start.

After that, President Bush was cautious the next year with 2002’s turkey


President Bush, still wary of turkeys in 2003

President Bush, learning to love the turkey in 2004 (with the Vice President standing aside for backup if needed)

In 2005, President Bush spent some quality time with the turkey.

President Bush was… back to embarrassing the nation again in 2006

2007’s turkey pardon found Bush at the same level as the turkey, both physically and intellectually.

Filed under: Little Noticed News, Z-TDB Blog

3 Responses to “Presidential turkey pardons through the years”

  1. The Daily Background » Intellectual equals, on November 20th, 2007 at 4:16 pm Said:

    […] Liss, who provides a far better caption than I could think of. Also, check out this post I wrote around Thanksgiving last year with photos from historical turkey pardons. My fav has to be […]

  2. The Daily Background » Happy turkey day, on November 27th, 2008 at 12:38 pm Said:

    […] Here’s a post I did in 2006 about presidential turkey pardons throughout history. […]

  3. usd6, on February 4th, 2009 at 3:43 am Said:

    This is a group of very interesting pictures, especially the turkey goes to see George W. Bush “small??” the picture ha ha! Thanks!



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