I read that Bush's "Thanksgiving Dinner" was a breakfast served at 7:00 in the morning, and the food he was photgraphed holding was a prop, not real food.
It's possible that this was an astroturf letter. (Astroturf as opposed to grass roots.) You may remember several soldiers sent letters to their hometown papers that had been dictated by their commanding officers. Snopes said it was a real email, from a real soldier. They didn't say if the story was true.