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Tad Lincoln Shared Dinner
Young Tad Lincoln once invited a group of street urchins into the White House to share his Christmas dinner. The cook tried to shoo them off, but Tad appealed tohisfathep who said they should stay. In 1877, a newspaper, alluding to the contested presidential election of 1876, wrote ungraciously of Rutherford B. Hayesj "This will be the first time a usurper has celebrated Christmas in the White House. But Santa Claus descends the chimney—alike on the just and the unjust.” Unperturbed, Hayes and his wife reenacted their wedding as a White House holiday festivity to celebrate their4H»Rji^ersary, £ Benjamin Harrison is credit ed with ordering the first Christmas tree ever set up in the White House in 18$9. The President himself helped trim it. Three years later, two of Harrison’s grandchildren stood in front of another White House Christmas tree and recited German pieces their governess, Fraulein Hempe, had taught them. Just before one Christmas, Theodore Roosevelt stood on a White House portico roaring with laughter as he watched three of his sons, hatchets in hands, chase a turkey across the lawn. Another year, Archie Roosevelt secretly decorated an evergreen in a secondfloor room and unveiled it on Christmas morning. In 1924, Calvin Coolidge started the practice of lighting a dt corated spruce on the
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