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Speaker 1: On this episode of News World, we're going to talk

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Speaker 1: about Thanksgiving, and I want to start by wishing each

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Speaker 1: of you a very happy Thanksgiving, a chance to be

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Speaker 1: with your family, because this is the first Thanksgiving after

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Speaker 1: COVID that many families will have gathered together since the

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Speaker 1: pandemic started. So families are coming together to celebrate this

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Speaker 1: uniquely American holiday which grows out of our history. Thanksgiving.

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Speaker 1: It's the one holiday each year that unites us, no

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Speaker 1: matter what your background is. Thanksgiving as a holiday celebrated

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Speaker 1: by virtually every American because its celebrates our founding as

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Speaker 1: a free, independent people and allows us to reflect back

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Speaker 1: at all those who came before us in this country

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Speaker 1: to support our society where religious freedom would prevail, where

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Speaker 1: we would be prosperous, and where we could celebrate God's

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Speaker 1: bounty to the American people. I thought i'd start by

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Speaker 1: talking about some of my own personal memories. I was

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Speaker 1: born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and I grew up in the

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Speaker 1: little towns of Humblestown and Middletown and Royalton and Steelton,

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Speaker 1: bouncing around my relatives. I had two families. My parents

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Speaker 1: by her new husband. So I went from a McPherson

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Speaker 1: to a gingrich. But the McPherson's wanted me to come

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Speaker 1: to their thanksgivings too, so I had this great opportunity

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Speaker 1: as a kid, two cycles of Thanksgiving, two cycles of

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Speaker 1: turkey legs, two cycles of pumpkin pie. I mean, it

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Speaker 1: was pretty good. Central Pennsylvania. As many of you may know,

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Speaker 1: he is a very traditional conservative area. At least when

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Speaker 1: that while alf Landon was losing nationally in nineteen thirty six,

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Speaker 1: he was carrying Central Pennsylvania by two to one. I

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Speaker 1: was very very Union oriented because of course it was

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Speaker 1: which may explain part of my own background. But it

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Speaker 1: was also a place that had great traditions, and of

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Speaker 1: course we were very deeply influenced by the Amish, so

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Speaker 1: there were a lot of Amish dishes that came over,

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Speaker 1: things like shoefly pie and many of my favorite memories

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Speaker 1: I have to confess their food. As a little kid,

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Speaker 1: I just loved turkey legs. I actually still loved turkey legs.

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Speaker 1: But when I was a little kid, was really pathetic

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Speaker 1: because he's gonna get turkey legs half the size of you.

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Speaker 1: My relatives were into very big get togethers, and so

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Speaker 1: they would have twenty thirty forty people at Thanksgiving, which

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Speaker 1: meant you had to have really big turkeys, which meant

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Speaker 1: you had a really big turkey leg. And I would cheerfully,

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Speaker 1: always whine until I got one of the turkey legs.

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Speaker 1: I could look forward to that all day and then

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Speaker 1: walk around cheerfully, getting grease all over my face as

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Speaker 1: I gnawed away at this turkey leg. And then of

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Speaker 1: course when you got to dessert, I should stop and

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Speaker 1: say things like cranberry sauce were into rule. In fact,

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Speaker 1: I'm very worried this year because there are reports that

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Speaker 1: there's going to be a shortage of cranberry sauce, although

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Speaker 1: my son in law, Jimmy Cushman, has already done homemade

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Speaker 1: cranberry sauce, sent us a picture. We're going to have

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Speaker 1: our Thanksgiving with the Cushman's and the lovers in Atlanta,

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Speaker 1: really looking forward to being together again after four years

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Speaker 1: of being in Rome. Jimmy, who's a great cook, his

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Speaker 1: daughter Maggie, who's even better cook, are gone to town here,

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Speaker 1: and so I'm confident we'll have one or two turkeys,

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Speaker 1: plus probably a ham. Jimmy's fixing all sorts of side

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Speaker 1: of desserts. But back to the mcphersons and the Gingwiches

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Speaker 1: and the good old days. Several of my aunts were

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Speaker 1: great pie bakers and cake makers. Others were great at

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Speaker 1: with these amazing meals. And because I belonged to two

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Speaker 1: different families, on some days, I'd actually get to go

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Speaker 1: to both thanksgivings, which had its own great advantage. Of course,

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Speaker 1: that in my childhood, well, I knew this thing about

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Speaker 1: the Pilgrims, and of course I grew up in a

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Speaker 1: generation where the schools taught the Pilgrims and the Thanksgiving

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Speaker 1: do have records of it. It was done to celebrate

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Speaker 1: thanks I mean thanksgiving, and its original meaning is not

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Speaker 1: a transliteration of Turkey. It is for giving thanks and

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Speaker 1: so they initially did that. We did people dress up

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Speaker 1: because my opponents might try to denigrate me. I never

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Speaker 1: period of the arrival of the Puritans and the Pilgrims

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Speaker 1: and that whole process in the early years of the country.

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Speaker 1: That's my personal experience. I look forward every year to Thanksgiving,

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Speaker 1: And I had an uncle who was very successful in business.

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Speaker 1: We would go to his home in Lewistown, Pennsylvania, have

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Speaker 1: was totally refreshed. It was a different world as a

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Speaker 1: then of course we went on to interesting places as

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Speaker 1: to Fort Benning, Georgia, where I became a Georgian, and

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Speaker 1: we had Thanksgiving every single place. And my mother, who

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Speaker 1: her aunts, he was a pretty good job of fixing Thanksgiving.

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Speaker 1: My stepfather was a very good cook, So I've always

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Speaker 1: been surrounded by these very good cooks. So that's my

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Speaker 1: personal report on Thanksgiving, but you know, it's also part

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Speaker 1: of a much bigger, longer story. Thanksgiving became official at

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Speaker 1: the very beginning of the country. On September twenty eighth,

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Speaker 1: seventeen eighty nine, this brand new government, in its very

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Speaker 1: first year, just before they left for recess, the first

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Speaker 1: States recommended the nation a day of Thanksgiving. Now, just

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Speaker 1: think about the priorities they were setting. These were the

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Speaker 1: people who signed the declas Independence, wrote the Constitution, fought

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Speaker 1: their very first session in Congress, you know, we really

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Speaker 1: ought to give thanks for the fact that we're at peace,

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Speaker 1: that we have an economy that's beginning to grow, that

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Speaker 1: the country. A few days later, President George Washington issued

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Speaker 1: a proclamation naming Thursday, the twenty sixth, seventeen eighty nine

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Speaker 1: as a day of quote, public Thanksgiving. Many presidents have

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Speaker 1: issued days of Thanksgiving, but they varied by day and

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Speaker 1: month from seventeen eighty nine. It was not until nineteen

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Speaker 1: of the first Thanksgiving. Colonists William Bradford kept a journal

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Speaker 1: great store of wild turkeys, of which they took many

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Speaker 1: besides venison, etc. Besides, they had about a pack a

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Speaker 1: mention whether the wild turkeys on Thanksgiving or not. However,

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Speaker 1: common and all over the East as colonists came from Europe.

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Speaker 1: Sarah Joseph Hale, the editor of Godie's Ladies Book, campaigned

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Speaker 1: for years for Thanksgiving to be represented as a national holiday,

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Speaker 1: and her campaigning was successful when Abraham Lincoln took note

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Speaker 1: and he established his proclamation. So you had the founder

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Speaker 1: Abraham Lincoln, both proclaiming it. Lincoln said, quote, as the President,

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Speaker 1: and all American citizens abroad who claim protecting from Theo's flag.

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Speaker 1: Could he not, withrite as well as duty, issue his

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Speaker 1: above classes of persons. Hale published recipes and wrote cookbooks

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Speaker 1: for Thanksgiving that featured turkey as the main bird. So

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Speaker 1: middle of the nineteenth century. After Lincoln made his proclamation

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Speaker 1: in eighteen sixty three, turkeys began to appear on Thanksgiving menus.

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Speaker 1: Now it's kind of funny because there's an old story

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Speaker 1: that Benjamin Franklin wanted the national bird to be a turkey. Frankly,

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Speaker 1: Native America he is. Besides, though little vain and silly

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Speaker 1: And this is what he said in the very first proclamation,

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