SOLD ONLY TO ACCOMPANY A PRESIDENTIAL CHRISTMAS CARD OR GIFT PRINT IN SAME ORDER..This SIGNED "Season's Greetings from the White House" documents nearly a century of presidential Christmas cards, messages and gifts from Calvin Coolidge to Donald Trump. This historical book is filled with captivating behind-the-scenes stories and personal recollections of every First Family, every year since 1923 and the first National Christmas tree.
Mary Seeley's extensive research enables her to share the human side of Christmas at the White House and preserve an important, but often overlooked, part of presidential history.
Not to be missed are the interviews with former First Ladies; Betty Ford, Rosalynn Carter, Nancy Reagan, Barbara Bush, Laura Bush and written remarks from the Johnson, Clinton and Trump White Houses.
This edition Includes such stories as:
Calvin Coolidge’s walk to the park to light the first National Christmas Tree
FDR’s undeterred love of Christmas during 12 years of war and peace
Dwight Eisenhower paintings reproduced for his Christmas gift prints
The Jackie Kennedy South Lawn sleigh ride that became a Christmas card
Pat Nixon’s unheralded acquisitions and restoration of the White House
Ronald Reagan, who had the National Tree lit on his Inauguration Day
Barbara Bush, with a record 12 rides to the top of the National Tree
The Clintons’ contributions to a Contemporary White House Christmas
White House tours closed before George W. Bush’s first Christmas there
See how the Obamas’ Christmas cards and decorations went to the dogs
Donald Trump’s campaign promise to bring back “Merry Christmas”