Here’s a look back at the way presidents have celebrated Thanksgiving inside the White House and out.
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President Obama’s first official turkey pardoning was for a bird named “Courage” in November 2009.
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President George W. Bush made a surprise trip to Baghdad to have Thanksgiving dinner with the troops in 2003.
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President Clinton and first lady Hillary Clinton helped prepare dinner at Covenant Baptist Church in Washington, D.C., in 1993.
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In 1990, President George H.W. Bush had Thanksgiving dinner with American troops in Saudi Arabia.
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President Reagan pardoned Woody, a 40-pound turkey from Iowa, in 1988.
(Gerald R Ford Presidential Library & Museum)
President Ford pardoned a turkey from Michigan in 1975. According to a White House memo, it was the first time the turkey, the president and the presenter were from the same state.
(LBJ Presidential Library)
President Johnson came face-to-face with a turkey with a sign around its neck that said, “Good Eating Mr. President” in 1967.
(John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum)
Days before his assassination, President Kennedy pardoned a turkey on Nov.19, 1963.
(Harry S. Truman Library and Museum)
President Truman petted the turkey presented to him outside the White House in 1949.
(FDR Presidential Library & Museum)
On 1935, first lady Eleanor Roosevelt watched President Roosevelt carve a turkey in Warm Spring, Ga.
