10/15/2007
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu...
"All executive branch departments and agencies of the Federal Government shall be closed and their employees excused from duty for the last half of the scheduled workday on Thursday, December 24, 2009."
"Hanukkah's lessons inspire us all to give thanks for the blessings we enjoy."
"It is not the powerful weapons that make our Nation the strongest in the world."
"Each of us in our own lives can do our part in order to make a more just and lasting peace."