going to be the time when none of those memories were front and center, and she used it to celebrate everybody, including, by the way, the white house staff, all of the secret service men and their children, and of course grandchildren got pretty much the same presents that all those other children did too. so, it was those were not bad presents. i remember one year your grandfather gave people in the household staff a pocket knife with his initials on it. have you seen that? well, and also, at win point, ike was an amateur painter, as you know, michael, and at one point, he decided to have copies of a number of figures that he so admired. they re still kind of collector s items. along with affairs of state, presidential gifts are always on the holiday season agenda. lucy johnson remembers her father s generosity. when he had this incredible round-the-world trip, several
some kind of indescribable symptoms that weren t evident at first. that was the night before christmas, literally, and his little red tricycle had already been assembled. it was under the christmas tree. and when he got to the infirmary, they didn t let him out. they discovered that he had scarlet fever. he died on january 2nd, and so this whole christmas season for my grandparents was both heartbreaking, on the one hand, but my grandmother, who was never one to be slowed up by emotion to the point that she couldn t function, decided probably in the mid-1920s that she was going to make christmas the biggest deal ever. and this whole thing started in about october. she had a little secret room for wrapping presents, and the festivities went on after thanksgiving all the way through the holiday season. and would they ever talk
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