❌ False. Truman was neither the first U.S. president to pardon a turkey (he didn't pardon any of the birds presented to him), nor did the modern annual tradition begin with him.
), and this ceremony has become a White House tradition which is annually covered by the press. Of recent years, news stories about the annual bestowment of clemency on the Presidential gobbler have often asserted the tradition began in 1947, with President Harry Truman first pardoning a bird.
The Truman Library has received many requests over the years for information confirming the story that President Truman"pardoned" a Thanksgiving turkey in 1947, thus initiating a Presidential tradition that continues to this day. As to who spared the first Presidential gobbler, one charming bit of folklore lays that honor at the feet of Abraham Lincoln. Supposedly, his ten-year-old son, Tad Lincoln, christened as"Jack" a bird given to Honest Abe in 1863 and was therefore less than delighted by the prospect of having his feathered friend served up on a platter at the family's Christmas feast.
The first president to use a form of the word"pardon" in connection with a turkey was President Ronald Reagan in 1987, but even then he wasn't granting a stay of execution to a bird at risk of being eaten; he was deflecting with humor some questions posed by the media that he did not want to answer. Reagan parried queries about whether he would pardon Iran-Contra figures Lt. Col.
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