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Cargill turkeys to be Shown to President Obama for Pardoning

In a tradition that dates back to 1947, when Harry Truman was President of the United States, on Thanksgiving week President Barack Obama will be given a tom turkey in a White House Rose Garden ceremony signaling the start of the holiday season. Each year, two live turkeys are given to the White House and since 1989, when George Herbert Walker Bush was president, they have been pardoned.
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