The First White House Christmas Tree
It's that time of year again, and the new White House Historical Association Christmas ornament is ready. This year, it's a beaut. Harking back to the 1889-1893, one-term administration of Benjamin Harrison, the colorful ornament is of a large Christmas tree decorated with roping, candles, and presents. And that's appropriate because Harrison was the first president to display a Christmas tree in the White House. He even gave out staff gifts. Married men received turkeys and single men fine gloves. The assumption was that families ate Christmas dinner at home, while singles had to dress up to go out.
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Enviroment!
wwow this is why our enviroment is bad because you people are cutting down chritmas thousands of feet tall! and you dont buy the really tall fake one's!stop cutting chritmas trees!
Christmas Trees
I think the White House should stop cutting down large Christmas trees and get a large artificial Christmas tree. I know they can because i saw 30 foot tall christmas trees on http://www.christmascentral.com Im sure one of those and LED lights is the best way to go green. The White House needs to start leading by example.
Politically correct advocates will object
But one very good reason to ignore the objections can be found at thie URL: http://www.scribd.com/doc/910/Is-Merry-Christmas-Politically-Incorrect
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