Biden Opens Holidays, Pardons Turkeys Chocolate and Chip
WASHINGTON—President Joe Biden continued a 75-year tradition Monday and pardoned a pair of Thanksgiving turkeys named after his favorite flavor of ice cream.
Biden welcomed Chocolate and Chip before hundreds of people gathered on the South Lawn in unseasonably cold weather.
Chocolate and Chip, each weighing nearly 50 pounds, were driven up from North Carolina on Saturday and were checked into a room at the Willard hotel near the White House to await their visit with the president and his declaration of their freedom.
The combination of chocolate and chip is Biden’s favorite flavor of ice cream. The president joked at the event that “we could have named them Chips and Science,” after the $280 billion CHIPS and Science Act that Biden promoted and signed into law this year….