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Show same year, "Please send your 1 picture, I want to hang you in school!" Speaking of Christmas letters, let-ters, a couple of my colleagues in the House received interesting inter-esting requests from constituents. constitu-ents. Congressman Lee of Illinois, Il-linois, the House Republican Whip, received this greeting: "I understand that you have free mailing privileges. I am sending you all my Christmas cards. Would you be good enough to drop them in the mail for me?" (Les, incidentally, incident-ally, didn't receive the cards from the writer. And, to put to rest any ideas that Congressmen Con-gressmen do send their Christmas Christ-mas cards free well, there's no truth to it we just use a six-cent stamp as everybody else does.) Christmas cards to constituents constitu-ents can backfire too. Former Congressman Howes Meade received re-ceived this note from an irate citizen who had just received the Congressman's .holiday card: "Just a few lines to let you know that I don't vote in no election, don't appreciate no papers or Christmas cards from no one. My husband is one-hundred one-hundred percent democratic. I stand one-hundred percent behind be-hind him." The holiday season does provide pro-vide us an opportunity to meet with friends and neighbors for some relaxing evenings of conversation. con-versation. At one such get-together get-together at the Burton household, house-hold, a fact was brought forth that certainly will make no national headline, but it is interesting in-teresting nevertheless. S i r Isaac Newton was one of those persons who lost out on two sets of presents because he was born on Christmas day, 1642! (Naturally, from this Christmas on, the Burtons will have apple pie in his honor.) It's been good reminiscing with you about some of the fun things connected with the holiday season. It is a season for merriment and sharing gifts. But, of course, Christmas Christ-mas is also the time to remember remem-ber what this day is all about. We hear the cliche about putting put-ting Christ back into Christmas, Christ-mas, and perhaps no one really pays much attention to that but when you cansider that some $2.7 billion will be paid out for toys this year then perhaps we better let commercialism commer-cialism take a back seat and think a little more about the true meaning of Christmas. A wonderful holiday season to all of you from the Burtons! Report from Washington . . . By Rep. Laurence J. Burton SOME THOUGHTS ON THE HOLIDAY SEASON It was just one year ago at Washington's Ellipse that I stood with many friends and strangers on a very cold December De-cember afternoon to witness President Johnson push the button to light the nation's Christmas tree. The tree ,as most know, came from Utah. It WAS cold, but the waiting was worth it to see the beautiful beauti-ful tree illumniated with thousands thous-ands of lights and ornaments. This year's tree came from New. York, and although we had a Republican President throw the switch, it just didn't seem to be as beautiful as our Utah tree. (But is was just as cold!) It's as crowded on Washington's Washing-ton's streets as it is on Utah's 'avenues. And, like all husband, hus-band, I still have a hard time s opping for my wife, Jan. I spend hours in department stores, fighting the crowds, standing in line, and then forgetting for-getting what sizes I had to remember. re-member. I wish it could be as simple as the Christmas wish one little boy from Hartford, Hart-ford, Conn., had in 1946 when he wrote President Johnson, simply saying, "Dear President, Presi-dent, If I could shake your hand, I wouldn't ask for another an-other thing for the rest of my life.'' Another young chap, who must have been pro-Gold-water, wrote the Presidont that |