Richard Nixon actually said...

I think one of the greatest privileges that a President of the United States has is to light the Christmas tree, the Nation's Christmas tree, because it belongs to all the Nation, here in the Nation's Capital.

Context

Remarks at the Lighting of the Nation's Christmas Tree.

12/13/1973

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