Fifty years ago, in December 1969, the Nixon family spent their first Christmas in the White House. Thanks to Pat Nixon’s vision, taste, and energy, Christmas that year was full of events and historic firsts.
Nixon Foundation President Hugh Hewitt looks back on the beloved Christmas traditions that Pat Nixon introduced in the White House during that Christmas fifty years ago.
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