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Washington felt differently and issued a Thanksgiving proclamation, and its 200th anniversary in 1989 is when George H. W. Bush turned the White House turkey handover, running since Truman got the first bird in 1947, into a formal pardon. I wrote up that and a dozen other angles on the turkey here: https://youpick.best/articles/turkey-ranked-many-ways

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