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Calling it “the most sacred religious festival of the year,” Benjamin Harrison issued a' Christmas proclamation. “We intend to make it a happy day all the members of my family, representing four generations, will gather around the big table,” the president said, adding that Americans had a “duty as Christians to make merry.”
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In 1895, President Cleveland added electric lights to his tree in the White House. Both the tree and his daughter’s eyes were said to have sparkled with the electrical effects.
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Calvin Coolidge’s family had two large Christmas trees, one in the Blue Room, the second upstairs. They installed a manger scene on a raised platform with a backdrop of evergreens and Grace Coolidge declared, “The real spirit of Christmas seemed to radiate to every recess of that old mansion and beyond.” In 1923 President Coolidge pressed the button to
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