The question seemed to stump Trump on his Christmas Eve call with troops around the globe.
. But if he follows the example of a gift exchange by a first couple during a Palm Beach Christmas more than a half-century ago, it would be pretty atypical.
Trump leaned back in his chair in front of a teleconference screen at his Mar-a-Lago club as troops watched him, and the press corps assembled in the Southern White House hung on his every word.“Oh, that’s a tough question. Well, I really should say, a very beautiful card,” Trump began. Then a delayed transmission reached the troops, who laughed, muffling his next comment: “You know, I’m working a lot.
Trump later reiterated on the show that he got the first lady a card and flowers before switching gears to foreign policy. Since then, the White House press office has not revealed what the president may have gifted the first lady.John and Jacqueline Kennedy spent Christmas in Palm Beach in 1962, their last one together.
“President Kennedy collected pieces of scrimshaw, which is basically artwork carved onto a whale’s tooth,” said Michael Desmond, an archivist at the Kennedy library. “So, that’s what she gave him for Christmas in 1962.” A note written on White House stationery to Kennedy’s secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, instructs her to place the gift on the president’s whale tooth base. Photos reveal the tooth was displayed on President Kennedy’s desk.
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