This television film focuses on the cutting of the Nation's Christmas tree. Because the Presidential White House tree came from Rochester, Vermont, it is important for the people of Vermont—as well as those from the rest of the nation—know the full story about the selection, cutting, transportation, decoration and the lighting of the Nation's official Christmas tree. This film shows the complete story, every step of this odyssey of the tree—from the rugged mountains of Vermont to Washington D.C. and the people involved in the story: the 80 year old Riley Bostwick, who started the idea, the Vermont State Foresters, the office of Economic Opportunity workers who cut a road to the tree, the lumberjacks who will cut it, the school children of Rochester who will christen the tree, and the Governor of Vermont who accepts the tree from the people in order to take to the President.