December 22, 2019
In 1979, President Jimmy Carter became the first president to recognize Hanukkah, lighting the National Menorah in a ceremony in Lafayette Park!
President Bill Clinton hosted the first menorah lighting ceremony in the White House in 1993, and in 2001, President George W. Bush began the annual tradition of an official White House Hanukkah party.
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