For over a hundred years, Americans happily celebrated Thanksgiving on the last Thursday of November. President Lincoln sanctioned the nations many official and unofficial celebrations by declaring the last Thursday of November the federal holiday Thanksgiving day.
The American people happily and peacefully continued to celebrate Thanksgiving on the last Thursday of November until along came American's Lenin, FDR. In 1939, President Franklin Roosevelt moved Thanksgiving Day forward one week. The public outrage was on the scale we hear today opposing government health care and Congress' out of control spending. FDR, a tool of big business, said Thanksgiving falling on November 30th didn't leave enough shopping days until Christmas. FDR's puppet congress agreed and changed the federal holiday to the 4th Thursday of November.
Due to FDR's unamerican activities, the National Turkey Federation (NTF) waited until 1947 to presented the President of the United States with a live turkey and two dressed turkeys in celebration of Thanksgiving.
Harry Truman gave the turkey a pep talk about heat in the kitchen before making it the main course that Thursday. Eisenhower ate his first presidential turkey in 1953. By his second term, the last of the White House kitchen stall willing to pluck a bird had moved on. The Eisenhower staff smuggled the live turkey out of the White House and brought one of the dressed to the table.
When President John F. Kennedy was presented with a bird wearing a sign that read "Good Eatin' Mr. President" he responded with "Let's just keep him." No turkeys survived being donated to Nixon. In a confusion of paper work, Ford pardoned Nixon instead of the turkey. Carter burned his turkey to heat the Oval Office due to an energy shortage. Ronald Reagan said something about trust but verify so no one knows what became of those turkeys. In 1989, George H.W. Bush became the first president to pardon the turkey. George W. Bush added the tradition of giving the bird to Disney Land.
Have a Happy Thanksgiving.
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