Pardon our error

Posted on November 26, 2007, 8:00 am, by Craig Silverman, under Newspapers.

Presidential turkey pardon: A caption in the Nation in Brief in Wednesday’s Section A said that the Thanksgiving tradition of pardoning turkeys dated to President Truman. The Truman Library has been asked for years about that claim but has found no evidence to support it. Link

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  • http://baylink.pitas.com Baylink

    Yeah, but at least he only had to pardon *one*, and didn’t have to draft either of them.

    :-)

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