Every year the president pardons a Thanksgiving turkey. Its a great photo op and sort of a silly publicity stunt.
Did you ever wonder how this got started? No? Well I'm going to tell you anyway.
Apparently people have been sending turkeys to the White House since the 1800's. (We've also elected a few turkeys to the White House but that is a completely different story.)
It seems the tradition took hold firmly when Horace Vose, a Rhode Island farmer, sent an annual turkey to the White House between 1870 and 1913.
After Horace died in 1913, the gifting was taken over by the National Turkey Federation. (Yes, there is such an organization...I couldn't make this stuff up!)
Here's President Obama pardoning last year's turkey, "Popcorn"
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Did you know that there are 76 days between today (September 12, 2014) and Thanksgiving.
That's 2 months and 15 days.
There will be 54 week days and 22 weekend days.
That's 1824 hours.
109,440 minutes
6,566,400 seconds.
The point is that you have plenty of time to select and send Thanksgiving cards to your clients and future clients.
Sending Thanksgiving cards makes sense because your card will arrive before the crush of the December and January holidays. You'll stand out and get noticed...and remembered.
