Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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JOHN and Abigail Adams moved into the drafty, unfinished White House just before Christmas, 1800, and threw the first party there on New Year's Day. Ever since, the holidays have been a lively season at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Few presidential couples, however, have gone at the Christmastime merrymaking...
The Nixons have three Christmas trees: the 65-ft. spruce on the Ellipse south of the White House, a 19-ft. tree decorated with each state's flower that adorns the marble entrance foyer, and a 9-ft. blue spruce upstairs that is trimmed with ornaments that the Nixons...
Handel to Hope. For the Sunday East Room service last week, the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church choir put on a half-hour version of Handel's Messiah (see Music). That evening, the program shifted from Handel to Hope as the comedian staged a preview of his Christmas show...
Hope added to the growing repertory of Agnew humor with a few cracks that the Vice President received gamely enough. One example: "Spiro Agnew's library burned down. The fire destroyed both of his books-including one he hadn't even colored yet."
Antiphonal Chorus. The Nixons have always been big senders of Christmas cards; this year they outdid every other presidential couple in memory by mailing out 37,000 red-bordered cards with the White House south façade embossed on the covers.