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President Jimmy Carter lights a menorah in 1979 in Lafayette Park, across the street from the North Portico of the White House.

 

 

 President Jimmy Carter lights a menorah in 1979 in Lafayette Park, across the street from the North Portico of the White House. Photo Courtesy the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library

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