Opinion: A presidential Christmas message from someone other than Barack Obama

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It’s 2009 and my how times have changed.

Here’s a video Christmas message card from 28 years ago -- at the end of another brand-new president’s first year in office. Certainly a contrast in personality and references.

-- Andrew Malcolm

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