Dec 192025
A Christmas Present Remembered
“For the past few years in this great house, I thought of our first real Christmas as a nation. It was the dark and freezing Christmas of 1776, when General Washington and his troops crossed the Delaware. They and Providence gave our nation its first Christmas gift – a victory that brought us closer to liberty, the condition in which God meant man to flourish.”
President Ronald Reagan
December 1984, Remarks at the National Christmas Tree Lighting.
National Christmas Tree lighting 1984