The traditional ceremonial presidential pardon of the National Thanksgiving Turkey, as we've come to know it, was formalized by President George H.W. Bush in ... Every president since then has ...
— Since 1989 when President George H.W. Bush pardoned an “understandably nervous” 50-pound turkey from being served as Thanksgiving dinner, every U.S. President since has continued the ...
It is fair to say that each president’s exercise of the pardon power pushed the outer limits of legitimacy. In fact, the ...
In his final hours in office, President ... pardons was not immediately disclosed, he's issued at least 88 individual pardons to date. That's the fewest of any chief executive since George H.W ...
According to one post, President Jimmy Carter pardoned his brother Billy Carter and former President George H.W. Bush pardoned his ... of all presidential pardons since Richard Nixon.