White House Christmases through the years

President Bill Clinton's picture is taken on Dec. 20, 1996, at the White House in Washington. He holds Socks the cat for children to pet as his wife Hillary looks on at the annual reading of Clement C. Moore's "T'was the Night Before Christmas." Clinton read the classic poem to a group of children invited to the White House from Washington area schools.

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