Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. It is believed Abraham Lincoln was the first president to pardon a turkey in 1863. Lincoln's son Tad allegedly became attached to the turkey ...

Following their pardons, the turkeys are ... the rest of their lives peacefully. President Abraham Lincoln is said to have first pardoned a Thanksgiving turkey after his son grew attached and ...

President Ronald Reagan was the first to use the word "pardon" in connection with the turkey. THe bird, named Charlie, was sent to a petting zoo instead of the dinner table. By 1989, the formality ...

exercise of the president’s pardon power. For example, Abraham Lincoln issued preemptive pardons during the Civil War to “encourage desertions from the Confederate Army.” Similarly ...

THE PARDON: The Politics of Presidential Mercy ... maintains that they are better understood as political acts. Abraham Lincoln offered amnesty to ordinary Southerners in exchange for oaths ...

The Medical Establishment’s Persistent Zeal to Impose DEI in Education President Joe Biden pardons the National Thanksgiving turkey named "Peach" as John Zimmerman, chair of the National Turkey ...

An curved arrow pointing right. President Obama went all out with dad jokes during his final Thanksgiving turkey pardon at the White House. Follow BI Video: On Twitter More from Politics President ...

Peas and Carrots, the two turkeys chosen to take part in the White House Turkey Pardon, have been living it up at a five-star hotel in Washington, DC while they wait for their big TV moment.

It appears from the text of the President's respite in the case of the condemned slaver GORDON, that there is no hope of pardon ... Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America ...