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It's interesting that perhaps more than any other holiday, Thanksgiving and the U.S. presidency go together in certain ways. Perhaps it has to do with the way presidents pardon the turkey, or the way FDR tried to move the date by a week to make for a longer Christmas shopping season. In any case, here are a few ways the presidents have celebrated the holiday meal.
Taft’s Thanksgiving turkeys competed for attention on his holiday tables with chubby Georgia possums, each with a potato stuffed in its mouth. Taft was a Cincinnatian by birth but a Southerner in his tastes, the newspaper accounts of the day noted. His Thanksgiving meal in 1910, thusly, was prepared by three cooks, “all Negro women, the very best of southern culinary artists,” the Detroit Free-Press observed.
At a White House Thanksgiving, tradition is a presidential thing
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