The two Thanksgiving turkeys were due at the White House on Monday to play their part in what has become an annual holiday tradition: a president sparing them from becoming someone's dinner.
President Joe Biden, the oldest president in U.S. history, also was celebrating his 81st birthday on Monday.
Political Cartoons View All 1256 ImagesLykken introduced Liberty and Bell on Sunday at the Willard Intercontinental, a luxury hotel close to the White House.
A little over 200 million turkeys will be eaten on Thanksgiving, Lykken said.
Biden will eat his Thanksgiving turkey with family on Nantucket, a Massachusetts island, continuing a long family tradition.
Persons:
Bell, “, ” Steve Lykken, Jennie, Joe Biden, Jill Biden, ” Lykken, —, “ gobble, gobble, hoopla, Taylor Swift, Harry Truman, George H.W, Bush, he’s, ”, Biden, Lykken, Dwight D, Eisenhower, Gerald R, Ford, Markus Platzer, Willard, ” Platzer
Organizations:
WASHINGTON, —, White, National Turkey Federation, Associated Press, Bell, Willard, Liberty, University of Minnesota's College of Food, Natural Resources Sciences, Norfolk Naval
Locations:
— Liberty, Turkey, Washington, Fleetwood , North Carolina, Liberty, U.S, Minnesota, Willmar , Minnesota, Nantucket, Massachusetts, Virginia