Meet Honest and Abe: This Year’s 'Pardoned' Turkeys. The president pardons a turkey (or two) every year at the White House. By ABC News. November 24, 2015, 4:27 PM. 18:24.

Honest and Abe’s 2014 predecessors, turkeys who were known as Mac and Cheese, both perished in the fall of 2015. “They died of natural causes,” Kenyon said.