— 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 ...

Continuing a tradition that goes back years, President Joe Biden will partake in his last turkey ... "I'll pardon him," of the 55-pound Thanksgiving bird. It wasn't until the George H.W. Bush ...

For example, in his pardon of former Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger and others involved in the Iran-Contra scandal, President George H.W. Bush memorialized his belief that “[t]he ...

While Americans have been sending turkeys to the White House since at least the 1870s, the turkey pardon as we know it was started by President George H.W. Bush. "The 'Presidential Flock' is ...