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First Lady Greets Her Last White House Christmas Tree

U.S. first lady Michelle Obama has taken delivery of her last White House Christmas tree. Standing at the mansion’s north portico Friday, the first lady, along with her young nephews and the family dogs greeted a 19-foot Balsam-Veitch fir as it was brought in a horse-drawn wagon, “Christmas begins. The holidays start,” Obama said, according to The Associated Press, after accepting the tree from Dave and Mary Vander Velden, owners of the Oconto, Wisconsin, farm where it was grown....

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