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Christmas trees light up the Grand Foyer as a military pianist fills the State Floor with music as guests arrive for a Christmas reception at the White House Dec. 3, 2004.
Christmas trees light up the Grand Foyer as a military pianist fills the State Floor with music as guests arrive for a Christmas reception at the White House Dec. 3, 2004.
 
Laura Bush receives the official White House Christmas tree delivered on a horse drawn wagon Monday, Nov. 29. 2004. The 18.5 foot Noble fir donated by John and Carol Tillman of Rochester, Wash., will be decorated and displayed in the Blue Room. The National Christmas tree stands lit on the Ellipse in front of the White House Dec. 2, 2004. President George W. Bush and Laura Bush assisted Chantilly, Va., Girl Scout Brownies Clara Pitts and Nichole Mastracchio in lighting the 40-foot Colorado blue spruce.
Cookie Monster from Sesame Street sits in the Green Room with a friend while attending the Children's Christmas Reception and Program at the White House, Dec. 6, 2004. The Cookie Monster and other children's television characters sang Christmas songs during the event. President George W. Bush Laura Bush watch a puppet show and sing Christmas Carols with dozens of school children attending the White House Children's Christmas Program in the East Room, Monday, Dec. 6, 2004.
School children attending the White House Children's Christmas Program offer cookies to Santa Claus in the East Room Dec. 6, 2004. Christmas trees light up the Grand Foyer as a military pianist fills the State Floor with music as guests arrive for a Christmas reception at the White House Dec. 3, 2004.
President George W. Bush and Laura Bush arrive at the Pageant of Peace to light the National Christmas Tree on the Ellipse near the White House Dec. 2, 2004. President George W. Bush and Laura Bush watch the lighting of the Menorah at the White House Thursday, Dec. 9, 2004. "We are honored to celebrate the miracle of Hanukkah in the White House this evening," said the President.
President George W. Bush and Laura Bush visit Operation USO CarePackage at Fort Belvior, Va., Friday, Dec. 10, 2004. "This is one way of saying, America appreciates your service to freedom and peace and our security," said the President in his remarks about the program that has delivered more than 480,000 care packages. President George W. Bush and Laura Bush pose for their annual Christmas portrait in front of the Blue Room Christmas tree Dec. 5, 2004.
Mrs. Bush and Taylor Buckles, older sister of conjoined twins successfully separated earlier this year, react to the first viewing of the 2004 BarneyCam during a children's holiday program at the Children's National Medical Center in Washington, D.C., Wednesday, Dec., 15, 2004. Mrs. Bush reads "Dream Snow" by Eric Carle with help from her patient escorts, Brandy Robinson, left, and Keith "Koddie" Hernandez during the annual Children's National Medical Center holiday program in Washington, D.C., Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2004.
Brandy Robinson, Laura Bush , Barney Bush Keith "Koddie" Hernandez and Santa Claus watch the first viewing of the 2004 BarneyCam during the Children's National Medical Center holiday program in Washington, D.C., Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2004. Laura Bush and her Scottish Terrier, Barney, visit with Carly Batchelder,8, a patient at Children's National Medical Center in Washington, D.C., Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2004.

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