Biden pardons two elderly turkeys on Thanksgiving
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US President Joe Biden pardoned two Indiana giant white turkeys, Pitt butt and jelly, in the White House Rose Garden on Friday, continuing a decades-old Thanksgiving tradition.
"Instead of cooking these two turkeys, they will be given boosters," Biden said, referring to the booster doses of vaccines that the US Food and Drug Administration allowed for more widespread use earlier in the day.
"It's important that we continue in traditions like this, to remind us of how there is light and hope and progress from darkness, and that's what Thanksgiving this year represents for me," he said.
Before he could speak, the turkeys were roaming freely in the garden, the smell of hot apple juice in the air. A band played bird-related melodies, including "Free Bird" and "Bird Land" by Weather Report, to a crowd of White House staff and their children.
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