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light the first National Christmas Tree towering on the White House lawn.
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After dinner on Christmas night, Franklin Roosevelt read Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” aloud to his grandchildren. He was America’s best known Christmas tree farmer, growing trees on his estate at Hyde Park, N.Y.
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President Abraham Lincon found his stocking bulging in 1865. On Christmas Day came a telegram from General Sherman: “I beg to present to you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.”
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“The great mart of compliments,” was how a New Yorker described the White House during one of Andrew Jackson’s holiday receptions. “All the world shook hands, bowed and exchanged Christmas greetings . . . The squeeze was tremendous.”
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