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Besides the letters (to a range of correspondents stretching from John Lennon and John Updike to Rajiv Gandhi and the socks department at Brooks Brothers), there are memorandums (many to the four Presidents he served, Lyndon Johnson and Gerald Ford being the others), notes to himself summarizing conversations he considered important, and entries from his private journal, which include some delightful travel writing.
NEWYORKER: Politics and Prose
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The tradition of hanging stockings by the chimney came from England, where the story was told that Father Christmas dropped some gold coins from his pockets and they were caught in socks hanging by the fire to dry.
FORBES: Everything You Wanted to Know About Christmas (but were afraid to Google)
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Now the 49-year-old is raving about the eight pairs of socks he owns from Teko LLC, in Boulder, Colo.
WSJ: It Ain't Rocket Science, but Sock-Making Comes Close