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Thanksgiving typically slows the news as Americans gather with family and friends. But the holiday also has a habit of amplifying Washington, D.C.’s political drama and surprises.

Americans are no strangers to controversies and scandals, including a handful that have played out across the decades as citizens gathered around the dinner table for Thanksgiving or headed out for Black Friday shopping.

Fox News Digital took a look back at the biggest scandals and political events that rocked Washington, D.C., around the fall holiday.

‘I am not a crook’

The Saturday before Thanksgiving in 1973, then-President Richard Nixon held a press conference in Orlando, Florida, where he famously said he was not a “crook” as the Watergate break-in and subsequ

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