A Christmas Eve Message For The Future From The Past

At one time in American history, presidents gave Christmas remarks. Some remarks from the past can provide us guidance for our future.

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The holiday season of 2024 has felt different. Some of it, perhaps, is the lingering darkness of the COVID pandemic that still clings to the edges of the collective American psyche. Part of it is the feeling that the nation is stuck in a Groundhog Day loop with Donald Trump returning to the White House.

The history of our country will not end with the next four years, and lessons for the future can be gained from looking at the past, so let’s take a trip back to December 24, 1938, as the country was still in the midst of the Great Depression and a few years before it would enter World War II.

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