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Truman">Harry S. Truman</a> receiving a Thanksgiving turkey (this one a <a href="/wiki/Bronze_turkey" title="Bronze turkey">Bronze</a>) from members of the Poultry and Egg National Board and other representatives of the turkey industry, outside the White House on November 16, 1949.</figcaption></figure> <p><b>National Thanksgiving Turkey Presentation</b> is a ceremony that takes place at the <a href="/wiki/White_House" title="White House">White House</a> every year shortly before <a href="/wiki/Thanksgiving_(United_States)" title="Thanksgiving (United States)">Thanksgiving</a>. The <a href="/wiki/President_of_the_United_States" title="President of the United States">President of the United States</a> is presented with a live <a href="/wiki/Domestic_turkey" title="Domestic turkey">domestic turkey</a> by the <a href="/wiki/National_Turkey_Federation" title="National Turkey Federation">National Turkey Federation</a>, usually of the <a href="/wiki/Broad_Breasted_White" class="mw-redirect" title="Broad Breasted White">Broad Breasted White</a> variety. The early years also included a joint presentation with the Poultry and Egg National Board. The ceremony dates back to the 1940s, with presidents occasionally sparing the bird presented to them; since 1989, during <a href="/wiki/George_H._W._Bush" title="George H. W. Bush">George H. W. Bush</a>'s first Thanksgiving as president, it has been an annual tradition for the president to "pardon" the turkey.<sup id="cite_ref-Hesse_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hesse-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:President_Ronald_Reagan_receives_the_40th_White_House_Thanksgiving_Turkey_1987.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/President_Ronald_Reagan_receives_the_40th_White_House_Thanksgiving_Turkey_1987.jpg/275px-President_Ronald_Reagan_receives_the_40th_White_House_Thanksgiving_Turkey_1987.jpg" decoding="async" width="275" height="182" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/President_Ronald_Reagan_receives_the_40th_White_House_Thanksgiving_Turkey_1987.jpg/413px-President_Ronald_Reagan_receives_the_40th_White_House_Thanksgiving_Turkey_1987.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/President_Ronald_Reagan_receives_the_40th_White_House_Thanksgiving_Turkey_1987.jpg/550px-President_Ronald_Reagan_receives_the_40th_White_House_Thanksgiving_Turkey_1987.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3300" data-file-height="2181" /></a><figcaption>“If they’d given me a different answer on Charlie and his future, I would have pardoned him.” ―<a href="/wiki/Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan">Ronald Reagan</a>, 1987.</figcaption></figure><p> On various occasions, turkeys had been donated to the President as gifts from private citizens. Henry Vose, a Rhode Island turkey farmer, presented a turkey to the President each year from 1873 until his death in 1913.<sup id="cite_ref-kirkpatrick_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kirkpatrick-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The official presentation of a turkey to the President each year began in 1947 under President <a href="/wiki/Harry_Truman" class="mw-redirect" title="Harry Truman">Harry Truman</a>, and many sources erroneously attribute the origin of the turkey pardon to Truman. However, the <a href="/wiki/Truman_Library" class="mw-redirect" title="Truman Library">Truman Library</a> says that no documents, speeches, newspaper clippings, photographs or other contemporary records are known to exist that specify that he ever "<a href="/wiki/Pardoned" class="mw-redirect" title="Pardoned">pardoned</a>" a turkey; there are records that he publicly admitted to eating at least some of them.<sup id="cite_ref-Hesse_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hesse-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-edwards_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-edwards-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The presentation was partially borne out of a <a href="/wiki/Lobbying" title="Lobbying">lobbying</a> campaign: the Truman Administration, in an effort to conserve grain for foreign aid campaigns, began promoting "<a href="/wiki/Meatless_Monday" title="Meatless Monday">Meatless Tuesdays</a>" and "Poultryless Thursdays" in the autumn of 1947. Not only did American citizens quickly grow frustrated with the (voluntary, but strongly encouraged) restrictions and begin disregarding them in short order, the National Poultry and Egg Board, incensed at the attack on their industry, noted that not only was Thanksgiving on a Thursday (thus making the annual Thanksgiving turkey a taboo), but <a href="/wiki/Christmas" title="Christmas">Christmas</a> and <a href="/wiki/New_Year%27s_Day" title="New Year's Day">New Year's Day</a> also landed on a Thursday that year. A truce was called in the dispute in early November, before the Thanksgiving holiday, but "Eggless Thursdays" continued to be promoted for the rest of the year, meaning that <a href="/wiki/Pumpkin_pie" title="Pumpkin pie">pumpkin pie</a>, another Thanksgiving staple, was still on the forbidden foods list.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Eisenhower_Presidential_Library" class="mw-redirect" title="Eisenhower Presidential Library">Eisenhower Presidential Library</a> says documents in their collection reveal that President <a href="/wiki/Dwight_Eisenhower" class="mw-redirect" title="Dwight Eisenhower">Dwight Eisenhower</a> ate the birds presented to him during his two terms. President <a href="/wiki/John_F._Kennedy" title="John F. Kennedy">John F. Kennedy</a> spontaneously spared a turkey on November 18, 1963, just four days before his <a href="/wiki/John_F._Kennedy_assassination" class="mw-redirect" title="John F. Kennedy assassination">assassination</a>. The bird was wearing a sign reading, "Good Eating Mr. President." Kennedy returned the massive 55-pound (25 kg) turkey to the farm, saying "we'll let this one grow."<sup id="cite_ref-marybruce_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-marybruce-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Scattered reports in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Washington_Post" title="The Washington Post">The Washington Post</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Times" title="Los Angeles Times">Los Angeles Times</a></i> referred to it as a pardon, but Kennedy did not refer to it as such.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Likewise, <a href="/wiki/Richard_Nixon" title="Richard Nixon">Richard Nixon</a> also spared some of the turkeys given to him during his time as President.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-monkman_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-monkman-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The first President on record issuing a "pardon" to his turkey was <a href="/wiki/Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan">Ronald Reagan</a>. Reagan had been sending the turkeys presented to him to farms and zoos since at least 1982,<sup id="cite_ref-monkman_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-monkman-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and 1987's turkey, Charlie, was likewise headed to a <a href="/wiki/Petting_zoo" title="Petting zoo">petting zoo</a>. At the time, Reagan was facing questions over the <a href="/wiki/Iran-Contra_affair" class="mw-redirect" title="Iran-Contra affair">Iran-Contra affair</a>, on whether or not he would consider pardoning <a href="/wiki/Oliver_North" title="Oliver North">Oliver North</a> (who had yet to be tried for his involvement in the affair); Reagan conjured the notion of the turkey pardon as a joke to deflect those questions.<sup id="cite_ref-Hesse_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hesse-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Reagan did not pardon a turkey in his final year as President in 1988, but his successor, <a href="/wiki/George_H._W._Bush" title="George H. W. Bush">George H. W. Bush</a>, instituted the turkey pardon as a permanent part of the presentation beginning his first year in office, 1989, in response to the protests of animal rights activists.<sup id="cite_ref-kirkpatrick_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kirkpatrick-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The phrase "presidential pardon" in that ceremony was apparently inserted by a speechwriter; Bush initially was indifferent to the terminology, saying "‘Reprieve,’ ‘keep him going,’ or ‘pardon’: it's all the same for the turkey, as long as he doesn't end up on the president's holiday table.”<sup id="cite_ref-monkman_8-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-monkman-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Since then, at least one of the turkeys presented to the President has been taken to a farm where it will live out the rest of its natural life. For many years the turkeys were sent to <a href="/wiki/Frying_Pan_Farm_Park" title="Frying Pan Farm Park">Frying Pan Farm Park</a> in <a href="/wiki/Fairfax_County,_Virginia" title="Fairfax County, Virginia">Fairfax County, Virginia</a>. From 2005 to 2009, the pardoned turkeys were sent to either the <a href="/wiki/Disneyland" title="Disneyland">Disneyland</a> Resort in <a href="/wiki/California" title="California">California</a> or the <a href="/wiki/Walt_Disney_World" title="Walt Disney World">Walt Disney World</a> Resort in <a href="/wiki/Florida" title="Florida">Florida</a>, where they served as the honorary grand marshals of Disney's <a href="/wiki/Thanksgiving_Day" class="mw-redirect" title="Thanksgiving Day">Thanksgiving Day</a> Parade. In 2010, 2011 and 2012,<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the turkeys were sent to live at <a href="/wiki/Mount_Vernon" title="Mount Vernon">Mount Vernon</a>, the estate and home of <a href="/wiki/George_Washington" title="George Washington">George Washington</a>; Mount Vernon stopped displaying and accepting the turkeys due to the fact that they violated the estate's policy of maintaining its own historical accuracy (Washington never farmed turkeys). The 2013, 2014 and 2015 turkeys were sent to <a href="/wiki/Morven_Park" title="Morven Park">Morven Park</a> in <a href="/wiki/Leesburg,_Virginia" title="Leesburg, Virginia">Leesburg, Virginia</a>, the estate of former <a href="/wiki/Governor_of_Virginia" title="Governor of Virginia">Virginia governor</a> (and prolific turkey farmer) <a href="/wiki/Westmoreland_Davis" title="Westmoreland Davis">Westmoreland Davis</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-danmerica_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-danmerica-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Virginia_Tech" title="Virginia Tech">Virginia Polytechnic Institute</a> housed the 2016 pardoned turkey<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> as well as the 2017 turkeys; Virginia Tech was chosen because of the college's poultry science program, and the National Turkey Federation wanted to begin a tradition of cooperation between the turkey industry and universities.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Selection_process">Selection process</h2></div> <p>The turkeys are raised in the same fashion as turkeys designated for slaughter and are fed a grain-heavy diet of fortified corn and soybeans to increase the birds' size.<sup id="cite_ref-danmerica_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-danmerica-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A flock of approximately 80 birds, typically from the farm of the current National Turkey Federation chairperson, are selected to be acclimated to handle loud noises, flash photography and large crowds; from the flock of 80, the 20 best-preened and best-behaved are chosen and eventually narrowed down to two finalists, whose names are chosen by the White House staff from suggestions by school children from the state where they were raised.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Thanksgiving turkeys are bred and raised to provide more meat than those of the 1960s. Turkey hens are usually marketed at 14 weeks and weigh 15.5 pounds (7.0 kg) when processed. This compares to the tom, which takes 18 weeks to reach a market weight of 38 pounds (17 kg).<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The turkeys for the National Thanksgiving Turkey Presentation are usually 21 week-old toms (males) weighing 45 pounds by the time of their White House visit, compared to the shorter growing period for turkeys destined for market. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Broad_Breasted_White_turkey" title="Broad Breasted White turkey">Broad Breasted White turkeys</a> are bred for size at the expense of longer life, making them prone to <a href="/wiki/Obesity-associated_morbidity" title="Obesity-associated morbidity">health problems associated with obesity</a> such as heart disease, respiratory failure and joint damage. For many years, the pardoned turkeys were documented to have very short lives after their pardoning, frequently dying within a year of being pardoned;<sup id="cite_ref-danmerica_11-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-danmerica-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-usn11_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-usn11-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> for comparison, a wild or <a href="/wiki/Heritage_turkey" title="Heritage turkey">heritage turkey</a> has a lifespan of at least five years.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The lifespans of the pardoned turkeys have steadily improved in recent years, frequently having lifespans of over two years and occasionally reaching three years of age, an improvement attributed to better choices of homes after the pardons; rather than serving solely as tourist attractions, the turkeys are now placed in the care of experts who make conscious efforts to maintain the turkeys' health for as long as possible. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="List_of_turkeys_pardoned">List of turkeys pardoned</h2></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><span><video id="mwe_player_0" poster="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/President_Obama_Pardons_White_House_Turkey.ogv/225px--President_Obama_Pardons_White_House_Turkey.ogv.jpg" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="225" height="127" data-durationhint="316" data-mwtitle="President_Obama_Pardons_White_House_Turkey.ogv" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons" resource="/wiki/File:President_Obama_Pardons_White_House_Turkey.ogv"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/8d/President_Obama_Pardons_White_House_Turkey.ogv/President_Obama_Pardons_White_House_Turkey.ogv.360p.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp8, vorbis"" data-transcodekey="360p.webm" data-width="640" data-height="360" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/8d/President_Obama_Pardons_White_House_Turkey.ogv/President_Obama_Pardons_White_House_Turkey.ogv.360p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="360p.vp9.webm" data-width="640" data-height="360" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8d/President_Obama_Pardons_White_House_Turkey.ogv" type="video/ogg; codecs="theora, vorbis"" data-width="640" data-height="360" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/8d/President_Obama_Pardons_White_House_Turkey.ogv/President_Obama_Pardons_White_House_Turkey.ogv.144p.mjpeg.mov" type="video/quicktime" data-transcodekey="144p.mjpeg.mov" data-width="256" data-height="144" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/8d/President_Obama_Pardons_White_House_Turkey.ogv/President_Obama_Pardons_White_House_Turkey.ogv.240p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="240p.vp9.webm" data-width="426" data-height="240" /><track src="https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=timedtext&title=File%3APresident_Obama_Pardons_White_House_Turkey.ogv&lang=en&trackformat=vtt&origin=%2A" kind="subtitles" type="text/vtt" srclang="en" label="English ‪(en)‬" data-dir="ltr" /></video></span><figcaption>President <a href="/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a> grants the traditional turkey pardon to Liberty during the ceremony at the North Portico of the White House on November 23, 2011. Liberty was one of the few to survive more than a year after being pardoned.</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Reagan_Presidency">Reagan Presidency</h3></div> <ul><li>1987: "Charlie", the pardoned turkey, was sent to a <a href="/wiki/Petting_zoo" title="Petting zoo">petting zoo</a> in 1987.<sup id="cite_ref-Hesse_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hesse-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Clinton_Presidency">Clinton Presidency</h3></div> <ul><li>1999: "Harry the Turkey" is the first in the record of the formal pardon process to have been given an official name.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>2000: "Jerry the Turkey", a 45-pounder (20 kg) from <a href="/wiki/Barron,_Wisconsin" title="Barron, Wisconsin">Barron, Wisconsin</a>. The pardoned turkey (the eighth in Clinton's presidency) and its unnamed alternate were both sent to Kidwell Farm's petting zoo in Herndon, Virginia.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="George_W._Bush_Presidency">George W. Bush Presidency</h3></div> <ul><li>2001: Liberty and his back-up Freedom, so named in the wake of <a href="/wiki/9/11_attacks" class="mw-redirect" title="9/11 attacks">9/11 attacks</a>. They weighed 48 and 52 pounds (22 and 24 kg), respectively.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>2002: Katie, the first-ever female turkey pardoned. The 30-pound (14 kg) bird bred by Ron Prestage, chairman of the <a href="/wiki/National_Turkey_Federation" title="National Turkey Federation">National Turkey Federation</a>, as well as alternate bird Zack. The turkeys were named after Prestage's children.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>2003: Stars and backup Stripes. <sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>2004: Biscuits and backup Gravy.</li> <li>2005: Marshmallow and alternate bird Yam, raised in <a href="/wiki/Henning,_Minnesota" title="Henning, Minnesota">Henning, Minnesota</a>. Beginning in 2005 pardoned birds were sent to Disneyland to live, and serve as the "honorary grand marshal" of that year's thanksgiving day parade, following concerns raised by animal rights groups that the birds had not survived for long. For the previous 15 years they had been sent to <a href="/wiki/Frying_Pan_Farm_Park" title="Frying Pan Farm Park">Frying Pan Farm Park</a> near <a href="/wiki/Herndon,_Virginia" title="Herndon, Virginia">Herndon, Virginia</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Names were generally chosen in online votes taken at the White House website.</li> <li>2006: Flyer and alternate bird Fryer, raised in <a href="/wiki/Missouri" title="Missouri">Missouri</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>2007: 45-pound (20 kg) May and backup Flower, raised in <a href="/wiki/Indiana" title="Indiana">Indiana</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>2008: 45-pound backup "vice" turkey named Pumpkin, after the number one turkey Pecan fell ill the night before the ceremony. Both turkeys were allowed to live.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Obama_Presidency">Obama Presidency</h3></div> <ul><li>2009: Courage, a 45-pound turkey provided by the <a href="/wiki/National_Turkey_Federation" title="National Turkey Federation">National Turkey Federation</a>, and alternate bird Carolina, raised in <a href="/wiki/North_Carolina" title="North Carolina">North Carolina</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>2010: Apple, a 45-pound turkey from <a href="/wiki/Foster_Farms" title="Foster Farms">Foster Farms</a> in <a href="/wiki/Modesto,_California" title="Modesto, California">Modesto, California</a>; and alternate bird Cider.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Both had died of natural causes by Thanksgiving 2011.<sup id="cite_ref-usn11_16-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-usn11-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>2011: A 45-pound turkey named Liberty and an alternate bird named Peace, both of which were raised in <a href="/wiki/Willmar,_Minnesota" title="Willmar, Minnesota">Willmar, Minnesota</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Peace survived until shortly before Thanksgiving 2012, when he was euthanized.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Liberty survived until being euthanized April 26, 2013 at the age of 2.<sup id="cite_ref-schwab_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-schwab-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>2012: Cobbler and Gobbler, both 40-pound (18 kg) turkeys from <a href="/wiki/Rockingham_County,_Virginia" title="Rockingham County, Virginia">Rockingham County, Virginia</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Gobbler died suddenly in February 2013; Cobbler was euthanized on August 22 of that year.<sup id="cite_ref-marybruce_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-marybruce-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-schwab_32-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-schwab-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>2013: Popcorn, a 38-pound (17 kg) turkey from <a href="/wiki/Badger,_Minnesota" title="Badger, Minnesota">Badger, Minnesota</a>. Popcorn won an online contest over its identically sized stablemate Caramel, which was also spared.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Popcorn died of <a href="/wiki/Heatstroke" class="mw-redirect" title="Heatstroke">heatstroke</a> in summer 2014. Caramel survived much longer; it outlived one of the next year's turkeys and did not die until October 2015, spending most of its two years of life at Morven Park as the companion of a brown <a href="/wiki/Heritage_turkey" title="Heritage turkey">heritage turkey</a> named Franklin.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-postpardon_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-postpardon-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>2014: Cheese and alternate bird Mac, both of which were 48-pound (22 kg) turkeys from <a href="/wiki/Fort_Recovery,_Ohio" title="Fort Recovery, Ohio">Fort Recovery, Ohio</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Mac died of suspected heatstroke in July 2015; Cheese remains alive as of November 2015, with the surviving Franklin as its companion.<sup id="cite_ref-postpardon_37-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-postpardon-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Cheese was implied dead some time before June 2017, as the Morven Park Web site mentioned only housing the 2015 turkeys by that time.<sup id="cite_ref-morvenparkofficial_40-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-morvenparkofficial-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>2015: Abe, a 43-pound (20 kg) turkey again presented by Foster Farms. The alternate was 42-pound (19 kg) Honest.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Morven Park reported that both were still alive as of November 2016<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Morven Park stated that the turkeys either died or were relocated out of Morven Park in December 2017.<sup id="cite_ref-morvenparkofficial_40-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-morvenparkofficial-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>2016: Tater and Tot, 40-pound and 39½-pound (18 kg respectively) turkeys from <a href="/wiki/Storm_Lake,_Iowa" title="Storm Lake, Iowa">Storm Lake, Iowa</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Both were reported as still alive and healthy but showing signs of old age as of November 2017.<sup id="cite_ref-nydn17_46-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nydn17-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Trump_Presidency">Trump Presidency</h3></div> <ul><li>2017: Drumstick, a 36-pound (16 kg) turkey,<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> who was chosen over alternate Wishbone, a 47-pound (21 kg) turkey;<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> both were from <a href="/wiki/Alexandria,_Minnesota" title="Alexandria, Minnesota">Alexandria, Minnesota</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-nydn17_46-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nydn17-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Two pre-slaughtered turkeys from <a href="/wiki/Orefield,_Pennsylvania" title="Orefield, Pennsylvania">Orefield, Pennsylvania</a> were also presented, with those turkeys being donated to <a href="/wiki/Martha%27s_Table" title="Martha's Table">Martha's Table</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="State_ceremonies">State ceremonies</h2></div> <p>A number of <a href="/wiki/U.S._states" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. states">U.S. states</a> have similar turkey-pardoning events, including <a href="/wiki/Minnesota" title="Minnesota">Minnesota</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The pardoning ceremonies have also been extended to other holidays; for instance, <a href="/wiki/Erie_County,_New_York" title="Erie County, New York">Erie County, New York</a>'s county executive facetiously pardons a <a href="/wiki/Butter_lamb" title="Butter lamb">butter lamb</a> during <a href="/wiki/Holy_Week" title="Holy Week">Holy Week</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Popular_culture">Popular culture</h2></div> <p>In <i><a href="/wiki/The_West_Wing" title="The West Wing">The West Wing</a></i> episode "Shibboleth," when <a href="/wiki/C._J._Cregg" title="C. J. Cregg">C.J.</a> learns the alternate turkey is to be slaughtered, she appeals to <a href="/wiki/Josiah_Bartlet" class="mw-redirect" title="Josiah Bartlet">President Bartlet</a> to save it. He points out that he cannot pardon a turkey, as it had committed no crime and he has no "judicial jurisdiction over birds". So, he drafts the turkey into military service to spare its life. In real life, both the turkey and the alternate are spared. </p><p>The animated film <i><a href="/wiki/Free_Birds" title="Free Birds">Free Birds</a></i> centers around a turkey who was pardoned, then is recruited to go back in time in an attempt to change history and remove turkey from the menu of the first Thanksgiving dinner at <a href="/wiki/Plymouth_Colony" title="Plymouth Colony">Plymouth Colony</a>. </p><p>In David Mamet's play <i><a href="/wiki/November_(play)" title="November (play)">November</a></i>, an incumbent president losing his bid for reelection uses the yearly tradition to extort the turkey manufacturers to add to his lacking campaign fund. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Gallery">Gallery</h2></div> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Photograph_of_Sen._Olin_Johnston_of_South_Carolina_presenting_President_Truman_with_a_turkey_from_Wilton_E._Hall_of..._-_NARA_-_199536.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="President Harry Truman receives a turkey from a private citizen in 1946."><img alt="President Harry Truman receives a turkey from a private citizen in 1946." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Photograph_of_Sen._Olin_Johnston_of_South_Carolina_presenting_President_Truman_with_a_turkey_from_Wilton_E._Hall_of..._-_NARA_-_199536.jpg/120px-Photograph_of_Sen._Olin_Johnston_of_South_Carolina_presenting_President_Truman_with_a_turkey_from_Wilton_E._Hall_of..._-_NARA_-_199536.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="97" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Photograph_of_Sen._Olin_Johnston_of_South_Carolina_presenting_President_Truman_with_a_turkey_from_Wilton_E._Hall_of..._-_NARA_-_199536.jpg/180px-Photograph_of_Sen._Olin_Johnston_of_South_Carolina_presenting_President_Truman_with_a_turkey_from_Wilton_E._Hall_of..._-_NARA_-_199536.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Photograph_of_Sen._Olin_Johnston_of_South_Carolina_presenting_President_Truman_with_a_turkey_from_Wilton_E._Hall_of..._-_NARA_-_199536.jpg/240px-Photograph_of_Sen._Olin_Johnston_of_South_Carolina_presenting_President_Truman_with_a_turkey_from_Wilton_E._Hall_of..._-_NARA_-_199536.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3000" data-file-height="2421" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">President <a href="/wiki/Harry_Truman" class="mw-redirect" title="Harry Truman">Harry Truman</a> receives a turkey from a private citizen in 1946.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:President_John_F._Kennedy_receives_the_16th_White_House_Thanksgiving_Turkey_1963.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="President John F. Kennedy spares the turkey presented to him, 1963, only three days before his assassination."><img alt="President John F. Kennedy spares the turkey presented to him, 1963, only three days before his assassination." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/President_John_F._Kennedy_receives_the_16th_White_House_Thanksgiving_Turkey_1963.jpg/120px-President_John_F._Kennedy_receives_the_16th_White_House_Thanksgiving_Turkey_1963.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="93" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/President_John_F._Kennedy_receives_the_16th_White_House_Thanksgiving_Turkey_1963.jpg/180px-President_John_F._Kennedy_receives_the_16th_White_House_Thanksgiving_Turkey_1963.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/President_John_F._Kennedy_receives_the_16th_White_House_Thanksgiving_Turkey_1963.jpg/240px-President_John_F._Kennedy_receives_the_16th_White_House_Thanksgiving_Turkey_1963.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3150" data-file-height="2446" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">President <a href="/wiki/John_F._Kennedy" title="John F. Kennedy">John F. Kennedy</a> spares the turkey presented to him, 1963, only three days before <a href="/wiki/Assassination_of_John_F._Kennedy" title="Assassination of John F. Kennedy">his assassination</a>.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Turkey_and_President_Johnson_1967.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="President Lyndon Johnson accepting a non-pardoned turkey, 1967."><img alt="President Lyndon Johnson accepting a non-pardoned turkey, 1967." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Turkey_and_President_Johnson_1967.jpg/120px-Turkey_and_President_Johnson_1967.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="118" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Turkey_and_President_Johnson_1967.jpg/180px-Turkey_and_President_Johnson_1967.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Turkey_and_President_Johnson_1967.jpg/240px-Turkey_and_President_Johnson_1967.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2000" data-file-height="1970" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">President <a href="/wiki/Lyndon_Johnson" class="mw-redirect" title="Lyndon Johnson">Lyndon Johnson</a> accepting a non-pardoned turkey, 1967.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Richard_Nixon,_turkey_pardon.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="President Richard Nixon spares the turkey presented to him, 1971."><img alt="President Richard Nixon spares the turkey presented to him, 1971." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Richard_Nixon%2C_turkey_pardon.jpg/120px-Richard_Nixon%2C_turkey_pardon.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="80" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Richard_Nixon%2C_turkey_pardon.jpg/180px-Richard_Nixon%2C_turkey_pardon.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Richard_Nixon%2C_turkey_pardon.jpg/240px-Richard_Nixon%2C_turkey_pardon.jpg 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="402" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">President <a href="/wiki/Richard_Nixon" title="Richard Nixon">Richard Nixon</a> spares the turkey presented to him, 1971.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Pat_Nixon_turkey_7844-26a.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="First Lady Pat Nixon accepts the turkey on behalf of her husband, 1973."><img alt="First Lady Pat Nixon accepts the turkey on behalf of her husband, 1973." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Pat_Nixon_turkey_7844-26a.jpg/120px-Pat_Nixon_turkey_7844-26a.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="80" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Pat_Nixon_turkey_7844-26a.jpg/180px-Pat_Nixon_turkey_7844-26a.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Pat_Nixon_turkey_7844-26a.jpg/240px-Pat_Nixon_turkey_7844-26a.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5431" data-file-height="3608" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">First Lady <a href="/wiki/Pat_Nixon" title="Pat Nixon">Pat Nixon</a> accepts the turkey on behalf of her husband, 1973.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Ford_Pardoned_Turkey.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="President Gerald Ford accepting a non-pardoned turkey, 1975."><img alt="President Gerald Ford accepting a non-pardoned turkey, 1975." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Ford_Pardoned_Turkey.jpg/120px-Ford_Pardoned_Turkey.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="80" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Ford_Pardoned_Turkey.jpg/180px-Ford_Pardoned_Turkey.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Ford_Pardoned_Turkey.jpg/240px-Ford_Pardoned_Turkey.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3150" data-file-height="2113" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">President <a href="/wiki/Gerald_Ford" title="Gerald Ford">Gerald Ford</a> accepting a non-pardoned turkey, 1975.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Ronald_Reagan,_turkey_pardon.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="President Ronald Reagan accepting a turkey, 1983."><img alt="President Ronald Reagan accepting a turkey, 1983." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Ronald_Reagan%2C_turkey_pardon.jpg/120px-Ronald_Reagan%2C_turkey_pardon.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="80" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Ronald_Reagan%2C_turkey_pardon.jpg/180px-Ronald_Reagan%2C_turkey_pardon.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Ronald_Reagan%2C_turkey_pardon.jpg/240px-Ronald_Reagan%2C_turkey_pardon.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3300" data-file-height="2194" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">President <a href="/wiki/Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan">Ronald Reagan</a> accepting a turkey, 1983.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:President_George_H._W._Bush_at_the_Annual_Presidential_Pardoning_of_the_Thanksgiving_Turkey.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="President George H.W. Bush at the 3rd annual pardoning of the Thanksgiving turkey, 1991."><img alt="President George H.W. Bush at the 3rd annual pardoning of the Thanksgiving turkey, 1991." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/President_George_H._W._Bush_at_the_Annual_Presidential_Pardoning_of_the_Thanksgiving_Turkey.jpg/120px-President_George_H._W._Bush_at_the_Annual_Presidential_Pardoning_of_the_Thanksgiving_Turkey.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="80" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/President_George_H._W._Bush_at_the_Annual_Presidential_Pardoning_of_the_Thanksgiving_Turkey.jpg/180px-President_George_H._W._Bush_at_the_Annual_Presidential_Pardoning_of_the_Thanksgiving_Turkey.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/President_George_H._W._Bush_at_the_Annual_Presidential_Pardoning_of_the_Thanksgiving_Turkey.jpg/240px-President_George_H._W._Bush_at_the_Annual_Presidential_Pardoning_of_the_Thanksgiving_Turkey.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2093" data-file-height="1401" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">President <a href="/wiki/George_H.W._Bush" class="mw-redirect" title="George H.W. Bush">George H.W. Bush</a> at the 3rd annual pardoning of the Thanksgiving turkey, 1991.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Bill_Clinton,_turkey_pardon.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="President Bill Clinton at the 11th annual pardoning of the Thanksgiving turkey, 1999."><img alt="President Bill Clinton at the 11th annual pardoning of the Thanksgiving turkey, 1999." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/Bill_Clinton%2C_turkey_pardon.jpg/120px-Bill_Clinton%2C_turkey_pardon.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="80" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/Bill_Clinton%2C_turkey_pardon.jpg/180px-Bill_Clinton%2C_turkey_pardon.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/Bill_Clinton%2C_turkey_pardon.jpg/240px-Bill_Clinton%2C_turkey_pardon.jpg 2x" data-file-width="400" data-file-height="267" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">President <a href="/wiki/Bill_Clinton" title="Bill Clinton">Bill Clinton</a> at the 11th annual pardoning of the Thanksgiving turkey, 1999.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:President_George_W._Bush_pardons_a_turkey_2008.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="President George W. Bush at the 20th annual pardoning of the Thanksgiving turkey, 2008."><img alt="President George W. Bush at the 20th annual pardoning of the Thanksgiving turkey, 2008." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/President_George_W._Bush_pardons_a_turkey_2008.jpg/120px-President_George_W._Bush_pardons_a_turkey_2008.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="92" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/President_George_W._Bush_pardons_a_turkey_2008.jpg/180px-President_George_W._Bush_pardons_a_turkey_2008.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/President_George_W._Bush_pardons_a_turkey_2008.jpg/240px-President_George_W._Bush_pardons_a_turkey_2008.jpg 2x" data-file-width="514" data-file-height="396" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">President <a href="/wiki/George_W._Bush" title="George W. Bush">George W. Bush</a> at the 20th annual pardoning of the Thanksgiving turkey, 2008.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Obama_ThanksGiving_Turkey_Pardon_2009.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="President Barack Obama pardoned a turkey called "Courage" on November 25, 2009."><img alt="President Barack Obama pardoned a turkey called "Courage" on November 25, 2009." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/Obama_ThanksGiving_Turkey_Pardon_2009.jpg/120px-Obama_ThanksGiving_Turkey_Pardon_2009.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="68" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/Obama_ThanksGiving_Turkey_Pardon_2009.jpg/180px-Obama_ThanksGiving_Turkey_Pardon_2009.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/Obama_ThanksGiving_Turkey_Pardon_2009.jpg/240px-Obama_ThanksGiving_Turkey_Pardon_2009.jpg 2x" data-file-width="615" data-file-height="346" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">President <a href="/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a> pardoned a turkey called "Courage" on November 25, 2009.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:P112614ps-0375.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Obama, Sasha Obama and Malia Obama look upon pardoned turkey "Mac" in 2014."><img alt="Obama, Sasha Obama and Malia Obama look upon pardoned turkey "Mac" in 2014." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/P112614ps-0375.jpg/120px-P112614ps-0375.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="81" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/P112614ps-0375.jpg/180px-P112614ps-0375.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/P112614ps-0375.jpg/240px-P112614ps-0375.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1100" data-file-height="739" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Obama, <a href="/wiki/Sasha_Obama" class="mw-redirect" title="Sasha Obama">Sasha Obama</a> and <a href="/wiki/Malia_Obama" class="mw-redirect" title="Malia Obama">Malia Obama</a> look upon pardoned turkey "Mac" in 2014.</div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-Hesse-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Hesse_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Hesse_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Hesse_1-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Hesse_1-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Hesse, Monica. 2007. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/20/AR2007112002331.html?sub=AR&sid=ST2007112002354">Turkey Pardons, The Stuffing of Historic Legend</a>. <i>The Washington Post</i>, November 21. 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href="/wiki/Tofurkey" title="Tofurkey">Tofurkey</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stuffing" title="Stuffing">Stuffing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gravy" title="Gravy">Gravy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Butternut_squash" title="Butternut squash">Butternut squash</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apple_cider" title="Apple cider">Apple cider</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hazelnuts" class="mw-redirect" title="Hazelnuts">Hazelnuts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cranberry_sauce" title="Cranberry sauce">Cranberry sauce</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carrot" title="Carrot">Carrots</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mashed_potato" title="Mashed potato">Mashed potatoes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sweet_potato" title="Sweet potato">Sweet potatoes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Acorn_squash" title="Acorn squash">Acorn squash</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Succotash" title="Succotash">Succotash</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yam_(vegetable)" title="Yam (vegetable)">Yams</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maize" title="Maize">Maize</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Menudo_(soup)" title="Menudo (soup)">Menudo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Green_bean_casserole" title="Green bean casserole">Green bean casserole</a></li> <li>Pie <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Apple_pie" title="Apple pie">Apple</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pumpkin_pie" title="Pumpkin pie">Pumpkin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pecan_pie" title="Pecan pie">Pecan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sweet_potato_pie" title="Sweet potato pie">Sweet Potato</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background:navajowhite;text-align:center;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Media</div></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:6.5em;background:cornsilk;"><a href="/wiki/Category:Thanksgiving_songs" title="Category:Thanksgiving songs">Songs</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/Alice%27s_Restaurant" title="Alice's Restaurant">Alice's Restaurant</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Bless_This_House_(song)" title="Bless This House (song)">Bless This House</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Bringing_In_the_Sheaves" title="Bringing In the Sheaves">Bringing In the Sheaves</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Come,_Ye_Thankful_People,_Come" title="Come, Ye Thankful People, Come">Come, Ye Thankful People, Come</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/For_the_Beauty_of_the_Earth" title="For the Beauty of the Earth">For the Beauty of the Earth</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Jingle_Bells" title="Jingle Bells">Jingle Bells</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Let_All_Things_Now_Living" class="mw-redirect" title="Let All Things Now Living">Let All Things Now Living</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Now_Thank_We_All_Our_God" title="Now Thank We All Our God">Now Thank We All Our God</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Over_the_River_and_Through_the_Wood" title="Over the River and Through the Wood">Over the River and Through the Wood</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Simple_Gifts" title="Simple Gifts">Simple Gifts</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Thanksgiving_Song" title="The Thanksgiving Song">The Thanksgiving Song</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/We_Gather_Together" title="We Gather Together">We Gather Together</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/We_Plough_the_Fields_and_Scatter" title="We Plough the Fields and Scatter">We Plough the Fields and Scatter</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Hold_My_Mule" title="Hold My Mule">You Name It</a>"</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:6.5em;background:cornsilk;"><a href="/wiki/Category:Thanksgiving_television_specials" title="Category:Thanksgiving television specials">Television</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/Bart_vs._Thanksgiving" title="Bart vs. Thanksgiving">Bart vs. Thanksgiving</a>"</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Berenstain_Bears_Meet_Bigpaw" title="The Berenstain Bears Meet Bigpaw">The Berenstain Bears Meet Bigpaw</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Bozo,_Gar_and_Ray:_WGN_TV_Classics" title="Bozo, Gar and Ray: WGN TV Classics">Bozo, Gar and Ray: WGN TV Classics</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Bugs_and_Daffy%27s_Carnival_of_the_Animals" title="Bugs and Daffy's Carnival of the Animals">Bugs and Daffy's Carnival of the Animals</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Bugs_Bunny%27s_Thanksgiving_Diet" title="Bugs Bunny's Thanksgiving Diet">Bugs Bunny's Thanksgiving Diet</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Charlie_Brown_Thanksgiving" title="A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving">A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Doonesbury_Special" class="mw-redirect" title="A Doonesbury Special">A Doonesbury Special</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Fluppy_Dogs" title="Fluppy Dogs">Fluppy Dogs</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Garfield%27s_Thanksgiving" title="Garfield's Thanksgiving">Garfield's Thanksgiving</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Intergalactic_Thanksgiving" title="Intergalactic Thanksgiving">Intergalactic Thanksgiving</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Lady_Gaga_and_the_Muppets_Holiday_Spectacular" title="Lady Gaga and the Muppets Holiday Spectacular">Lady Gaga and the Muppets Holiday Spectacular</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Mouse_on_the_Mayflower" title="The Mouse on the Mayflower">The Mouse on the Mayflower</a></i></li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Oprah%27s_Favorite_Things" title="Oprah's Favorite Things">Oprah's Favorite Things</a>"</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Saints_%26_Strangers" title="Saints & Strangers">Saints & Strangers</a></i></li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Slapsgiving" title="Slapsgiving">Slapsgiving</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Slapsgiving_2:_Revenge_of_the_Slap" title="Slapsgiving 2: Revenge of the Slap">Slapsgiving 2: Revenge of the Slap</a>"</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Star_Wars_Holiday_Special" title="Star Wars Holiday Special">Star Wars Holiday Special</a></i></li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Thanksgiving_(Family_Guy)" title="Thanksgiving (Family Guy)">Thanksgiving</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Thanksgiving_Orphans" title="Thanksgiving Orphans">Thanksgiving Orphans</a>"</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Thanksgiving_Special" title="The Thanksgiving Special">The Thanksgiving Special</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Turkey_Hollow" title="Turkey Hollow">Turkey Hollow</a></i></li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Turkeys_Away" title="Turkeys Away">Turkeys Away</a>"</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Very_Gaga_Thanksgiving" title="A Very Gaga Thanksgiving">A Very Gaga Thanksgiving</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Winnie_the_Pooh_Thanksgiving" title="A Winnie the Pooh Thanksgiving">A Winnie the Pooh Thanksgiving</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background:navajowhite;text-align:center;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Associated<br />events</div></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:6.5em;background:cornsilk;">Cultural</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Christmas_and_holiday_season" title="Christmas and holiday season">Christmas and holiday season</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_harvest_festivals" title="List of harvest festivals">Harvest festivals</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_films_set_around_Thanksgiving" title="List of films set around Thanksgiving">Thanksgiving in film</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Thanksgiving_television_specials" title="List of Thanksgiving television specials">Thanksgiving television specials</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_winter_festivals" class="mw-redirect" title="List of winter festivals">Winter festivals</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Macy%27s_Great_Tree" title="Macy's Great Tree">Lighting of the Macy's Great Tree</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/World%27s_Largest_Disco" title="World's Largest Disco">World's Largest Disco</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Adoption_Day" title="National Adoption Day">National Adoption Day</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Black_Friday_(shopping)" title="Black Friday (shopping)">Black Friday</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cyber_Black_Friday" title="Cyber Black Friday">Cyber Black Friday</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Day_of_Listening" title="National Day of Listening">National Day of Listening</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Native_American_Heritage_Day" title="Native American Heritage Day">Native American Heritage Day</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Small_Business_Saturday" title="Small Business Saturday">Small Business Saturday</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cyber_Monday" title="Cyber Monday">Cyber Monday</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Giving_Tuesday" class="mw-redirect" title="Giving Tuesday">Giving Tuesday</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thanksgivukkah" title="Thanksgivukkah">Thanksgivukkah</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:6.5em;background:cornsilk;"><a href="/wiki/List_of_Christmas_and_holiday_season_parades" title="List of Christmas and holiday season parades">Parades</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Novant_Health_Thanksgiving_Day_Parade" title="Novant Health Thanksgiving Day Parade">Novant Health <span style="font-size:85%;">(Charlotte)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chicago_Thanksgiving_Parade" title="Chicago Thanksgiving Parade">Chicago</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/America%27s_Thanksgiving_Parade" title="America's Thanksgiving Parade">America's <span style="font-size:85%;">(Detroit)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kitchener%E2%80%93Waterloo_Oktoberfest" title="Kitchener–Waterloo Oktoberfest">Oktoberfest <span style="font-size:85%;">(Kitchener-Waterloo)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hollywood_Christmas_Parade" title="Hollywood Christmas Parade">Hollywood Christmas <span style="font-size:85%;">(Los Angeles)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Macy%27s_Thanksgiving_Day_Parade" title="Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade">Macy's <span style="font-size:85%;">(New York City)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/6abc_Dunkin%27_Donuts_Thanksgiving_Day_Parade" title="6abc Dunkin' Donuts Thanksgiving Day Parade">6abc-Dunkin' Donuts <span style="font-size:85%;">(Philadelphia)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Celebrate_the_Season_Parade" title="Celebrate the Season Parade">Celebrate the Season <span style="font-size:85%;">(Pittsburgh)</span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/America%27s_Hometown_Thanksgiving_Parade" title="America's Hometown Thanksgiving Parade">America's Hometown <span style="font-size:85%;">(Plymouth)</span></a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:6.5em;background:cornsilk;">Protests</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/National_Day_of_Mourning_(United_States_protest)" title="National Day of Mourning (United States protest)">National Day of Mourning</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Unthanksgiving_Day" title="Unthanksgiving Day">Unthanksgiving Day</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buy_Nothing_Day" title="Buy Nothing Day">Buy Nothing Day</a></li></ul> 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