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Today, President Obama pardoned a turkey. It is part of a Thanksgiving tradition in which one lucky bird gets pardoned and gets to live out its days in a children’s zoo. Which president formalized the turkey pardoning ceremony from which the modern-day tradition arises?
Hint: Happy (almost) Thanksgiving! What better way to celebrate than with a trivia question about the traditional of pardoning of a turkey, memorialized in the West Wing episode Shibboleth? Take a peek at this classic scene:
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Answer: George H.W. Bush. Read about the strange tradition here.