December 25, 1930
[Released December 25, 1930. Dated November 14, 1930]
To the Nation's Christmas Tree Association of California:
Christmas is the children's day and older folk can enter into its joys only when led by their hands.
HERBERT HOOVER
[Mr. Treffle R. LeSenay, Secretary, Nation's Christmas Tree Association, Fresno, Calif.]
Note: O. S. Hubbard, superintendent of schools in Fresno, Calif., read the President's message at a ceremony around the "Nation's Christmas tree," a giant Sequoia in Grant National Park.
Herbert Hoover, Message to the Nation's Christmas Tree Association of California. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/211184