A.the Turkey pardoned by George w. Bush in 2003 B. The Turkey pardoned in 2009 by Barack Obama C.The Turkey pardoned by Abraham Lincoln D. The Turkey pardoned in 1989 by George H.W.Bush
Abraham Lincoln, he also pardoned the first turkey that he named Jack
What happens to the turkeys that are pardoned by presidents is not known.
President Harry Truman in 1947
the story is about that he pardoned a turkey because his son told him to
It dies & get's cutt open
The president of the United States of America is the elected official who grants a pardon to one Thanksgiving turkey. It actually is a case of two pardoned turkeys -- an heir and a spare -- in case the first-pardoned bird does not long survive post-White House life as a tourist attraction in Morven Park, Leesburg, Virginia.
The name of the turkey that kennedy decided he did not want to have killed has not been recorded, if it was given a name. It was given as a gift with the expectation that it would killled and eaten for Thanksgiving- it was not a pet turkey.
What to do with the turkey is the president's choice. Trump pardoned two turkeys and sent them to Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, VA.
Pardoning the turkey is a phrase used when farmers are getting ready to prepare turkeys for sale for Thanksgiving. It's a sort of ritual, where a good, healthy, ready to be slaughtered for sale turkey is pardoned from being slaughtered.
That is a good question. John F. Kennedy was the first President to pardon a turkey. I am sure somebody knows why he did that but the significant part is that the first turkeys were pardoned only days before the President was assassinated in Dallas November 22, 1963. President Johnson, Kennedy's Vice-President kept the tradition and it's been a tradition ever since.
Anything can be pardoned