President Biden took to the South Lawn today using his lame duck status to spare a flock of foul from the chopping block this holiday season. Dima Zane has the report.

For the fourth year in a row, President Joe Biden marked the start of the holiday season by carving out some time to make sure two turkeys won't be on the menu this Thanksgiving.

I hereby pardon, peach and blossom. Keep calm and gobble on.

The president took a more reflective tone at today's Turkey pardon event than in past years.

This event marks the official start of the holiday season here in Washington.

It's also my last time to speak here as your president during this season

and give thanks and gratitude.

So let me say to you, it's been the honor of my life.

I'm forever grateful. Biden used the moment to represent his

home state of Delaware, naming the pardoned birds after the state flower a peach blossom. For more

than three decades, turkeys have gobbled up attention at the White House rather than the dinner table.

But how it got started, well, that debate has ruffled some feathers.

President Truman was the first president to pardon a turkey. Actually, Truman was the first president

to receive a turkey from the National Turkey Federation, but there's no record of a pardon.

According to the White House Historical Association,

Truman said that the bird would come in handy for Christmas dinner.

So who was the first president to pardon a turkey?

Technically, it was honest Abe Lincoln,

after his young son, Tad, begged to save the life of a bird

originally destined to become Christmas dinner. Jack, the turkey, instead became a White House pet.

President John F. Kennedy was the first to spare a Thanksgiving gobbler in 1963, despite a sign hanging around the turkey's neck that read,

Good eating, Mr. President. Kennedy sent them back to the farm, and a year before

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