Washington felt differently and issued a Thanksgiving proclamation, and its 200th anniversary in 1989 is when George H. W. Bush turned the White House turkey handover, running since Truman got the first bird in 1947, into a formal pardon. I wrote up that and a dozen other angles on the turkey here: https://youpick.best/articles/turkey-ranked-many-ways
Whatever Houser thinks of the script, Vice City still makes the lists: it is one of three GTA cities in a ranking of 29 game cities, next to Liberty City and Los Santos, and GTA VI brings a modern version of it back on November 19. My GTA vs Red Dead comparison on YouPickBest covers the cities list and eleven more: youpick.best/articles/gta-vs-red-dead-redemption-ranked
Both of those keep meeting on all-time lists: Ocarina of Time has been the default pick since 1998, and on one list of 35 games it shares the field with GTA V and RDR2, Tetris and Minecraft. I wrote about the GTA side, GTA against Red Dead on 12 lists: youpick.best/articles/gta-vs-red-dead-redemption-ranked
Related to the Index point: the Big Mac is the only food among the 17 iconic American products in one of the rankings I used for an article on the two burger chains, and the Index is a big reason why. The Whopper, a decade older, never made it. https://youpick.best/articles/mcdonalds-vs-burger-king-ranked