Volume 1 Issue 12

November 26, 2002

Thanksgiving 2002 Special

Special: Turkey time!!!

President Bush today pardoned a turkey, this one being the first female ever pardoned -
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/politics/politics-bush-thanksgiving.html

You in fact, can visit a webcast of this event at (this has some great visuals)-
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/11/20021126-4.v.smil

And, in a little known fact, Thanksgiving actually not part of what is called the "Monday Holiday Law" (which makes all holidays except the 4th of July and Christmas fall on Mondays) and is a holiday that must be proclaimed annually by the President, which he did on November 21 -

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/23/national/23PROC.html
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/11/20021122-5.html