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  Photo President and Mrs. Coolidge Leave Thanksgiving Day Service

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  Photo Thanksgiving: President Nixon Pardons a Turkey

  President Nixon accepts and "pardons" a gift Thanksgiving turkey in front of the West Wing colonnade on November 18, 1969.