Watch: President Biden delivers a Christmas address to the nation
President Joe Biden is expected to deliver a Christmas address to the nation, emphasizing on the things that unite Americans around the holidays and expressing optimism for 2023.
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The holiday season at the White House has become a public moment, part of our national traditions. The lighting of the National Christmas Tree is televised. Visitors and dignitaries get to glimpse an Executive Mansion dressed up with glittering lights, garland and rich decorations.
It wasn’t always this way. The first known Christmas party at the White House was a small affair for the granddaughter of President John Adams and first lady Abigail Adams. Family lore has it that President Andrew Jackson’s children staged an indoor “snowball fight” with specially made cotton balls.
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