TURKEY TALES — Washington might be shuttered as electeds rush back to their states and districts to consider their political futures and plot out their plans for the rest of the year. But politics never sleeps, and there’s typically more action around Thanksgiving than just the clemency granted to a few lucky turkeys (among the 46 million killed for the holiday). For your holiday entertainment, Nightly presents six of the most memorable Thanksgiving-related political moments, just in time for your dinner table conversations. 1939: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt mixes up the dates — on purpose Before 1939, Thanksgiving was always held on the last Thursday of November. That was until President Franklin Delano Roosevelt — in an attempt to stimulate…
