Biden opens holidays, pardons turkeys Chocolate and Chip - Portland Press Herald

"Andrew Harnik/Associated PressnnChocolate chip is Biden's favorite flavor of ice cream."

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"President Joe Biden, accompanied by Ronald Parker, Chairman of the National Turkey Federation, left, speaks next to Chocolate, the national Thanksgiving turkey, left, during a pardoning ceremony on Monday at the White House in Washington."

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"They presented a tree to first lady Hillary Clinton in 2000."

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"Biden and his wife, Jill, were scheduled to leave Washington on Tuesday to continue their family tradition of spending the Thanksgiving holiday on the Massachusetts island of Nantucket."

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"WASHINGTON -- President Biden continued a 75-year tradition Monday and pardoned a pair of Thanksgiving turkeys named after his favorite flavor of ice cream while cracking jokes about his political party's better-than-expected performance in this month's midterm elections."

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""I hereby pardon Chocolate and Chip," Biden declared."

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""The votes are in, they've been counted and verified," Biden said as he welcomed turkeys Chocolate and Chip before hundreds of people gathered on the South Lawn in unseasonably cold weather."

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"Later, Biden helped serve heaping mounds of mashed potatoes, while the first lady doled out stuffing."

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"Advertisementnn"You represent 1 percent of the population and defend the rest of us," Biden told the servicemembers and their families, who came from Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, Camp Lejeune, and Marine Corps Air Station, New River, before dinner began."

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"Both gobblers were hatched in July in Monroe, North Carolina, according to the National Turkey Federation, sponsor of the turkey tradition, which dates to 1947 and President Harry Truman."

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"The burst of holiday activity at the White House followed a busy weekend personally for Biden and his family, along with midterm elections that saw the president's Democratic Party perform well enough to defy historical trends that had forecast huge losses."

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