Nearly seven decades ago, in the midst of the Cold War, a five-year-old child inadvertently called a top-secret emergency line reserved only for the US president and one four-star general. The innocent request? A chat with none other than Santa Claus.'Hello, is this Santa?' he asked Colonel Harry Shoup, who was stationed at the Continental Air Defense Command in Springs, Colorado, when he answered the confidential line in early December 1955 - fully expecting the worst.
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