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Herbert Hoover: “Christmas is the children's day and older folk can enter into its joys only when led by their hands.”

On the recordDecember 24, 1930
Christmas is the children's day and older folk can enter into its joys only when led by their hands.
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Herbert Hoover
Republican · California

Editor's note · Context

Message to the Nation's Christmas Tree Association of California.

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