Christmas With Presidents

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Helen Topping Miller. Christmas With Presidents

Christmas With Presidents

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Christmas at Monticello with Thomas Jefferson

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Her Christmas at the Hermitage: A Tale About Rachel and Andrew Jackson

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Christmas for Tad: A Story of Mary and Abraham Lincoln

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Christmas at Sagamore Hill

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Helen Topping Miller

Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln & Theodore Roosevelt

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At length, letting the weight of weariness have its way with him, Thomas Jefferson fell asleep. Martha Randolph, tiptoeing in later, shading a candle with her hand, saw his face upturned, eyes closed, nose pinched a little, some brown freckles standing out on the gray, drained cheeks, and caught the eagle look about him.

He will look like that when he is dead, she thought, as she blew out the candle and quietly slipped away.

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