A Budding Statesman

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Joel Poinsett was a man of many talents. He was the U.S. Secretary of War, lived a life of political intrigue as ambassador to Mexico, but will forever be most well-known for the special Christmas plant he bred. Jim Harriott explains the birth of the Poinsettia.

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