28 november 1968 & lbj pardoned a turkey, engaged in violence

#OTD 28 November 1968 Lyndon Baines Johnson, the 36th white male president, continued the violent tradition of ‘pardoning’ a turkey and then eating the dead, cooked flesh of a different turkey.

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