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- <title>
- Dec. 10, 1990: Gifted Gifts
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Dec. 10, 1990 What War Would Be Like
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- PEOPLE, Page 105
- Gifted Gifts
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- <body>
- <p>By SOPHFRONIA SCOTT/Reported by Wendy Cole
- </p>
- <p> What do you give the President of the U.S. for Christmas--or any other occasion? Lots of just plain Americans think they
- have the best answer, and they flood every President with
- hundreds of imaginative handmade gifts. The current Smithsonian
- magazine features some of the more interesting ones, which
- range from the clever to the downright odd. Harry Truman
- received a rendition of himself made from a coconut, complete
- with wooden teeth, and a North Carolina fan sent Jimmy Carter
- a carved dogwood walking stick topped with a hand grasping a
- peanut. Richard Nixon received miniature portraits of himself
- and wife Pat painted on two grains of rice, and three
- Presidents have received rice grains with the Lord's Prayer
- pain stakingly written on them. Remember, it's the thought that
- counts.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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