Good morning. I'm James Holman from the Washington Post and this is the Daily

202 for Wednesday, November 25th. In today's news, President-elect Joe Biden looks to name a slate of independent

nominees for the Justice Department. The first 6.4 million doses of Pfizer's

vaccine could go out in mid-December.

And a formerly homeless man gives away 2,500 Thanksgiving dinners.

But first, the big idea. Of all the norms, standards, and traditions that the Trump administration

has jettisoned and trampled, a couple of lucky Thanksgiving turkeys are still saved each year from meeting their maker.

And the White House Christmas tree continues to arrive in a horse-drawn wagon.

Perhaps these holiday rituals have endured because the stakes are so low.

No one's taxes will rise or fall because of them.

No one's citizenship is called into question.

There's no inconvenient science with which to grapple.

It's just a matter of gazing upon a Frazier fur from West Virginia

or making light patter about a couple of Iowa raised birds.

And for a few moments in late November, America turns its attention to keeping

up the appearance of hearth and home conviviality. Robin Gavan writes that there is a smidgen of solace in this in the facade, the lie, the wishful thinking, the distraction, the delusion, the hope.

President Trump has been more than willing to take a hatchet to the pillars of democracy by most

recently refusing to concede the election.

But the pardoning of the National Thanksgiving Turkey went forward

Tuesday afternoon without incident. The First Lady has been captured on audio tapes expressing disdain

for having to contend with Christmas decorations.

But nonetheless, she stood outside the White House on Monday afternoon,

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