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with his lathers approval, asked children from the street* in to join him in the kitchen for refreshments. In more • modern times, a reception fin* the chQ- . dren of the diplomatic corps is one of the highlights of the season.
And over the years, new presidents have kept on adding new tradition*. There’s the party for the Christmas card volunteers, carols by the aervice choirs, candlelight tours for senior citizens through the mansion decorated with lighted tapers, velvet bows, handsome green garlands and ornamented trees. President Eisenhower had at least 12 Christmas trees every year; Teddy Roosevelt reftised to have a single one until pressure from his children forced him to agree that it was proper to cut a tree for Christmas as long as it was taken from a dense stand that needed thinning.
The first tree was put up in President Benjamin Harrison’s office by his staff in 1889. Now a specific theme is chosen every year for the White House tree.
The Johnson* decorated their tree in the family quarters of the White House with icicles, snowflakes, gingerbread men, toy drummers and garlands of popcorn, with a star from F.D.R.’s 1940 tree on top. Betty Ford chose American folk art and handicrafts for tree decorations in 1974 and the following year she asked the craftspeople of Colonial Williamsburg to make the same ornaments that would have graced a tree in the mid-19th century.
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