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Gingerbread at the White House: Tricia Nixon with the Gingerbread House

Gingerbread at the White House: Tricia Nixon with the Gingerbread House

For the Nixons’ first White House Christmas, Assistant Executive Chef Hans Raffert created a gingerbread house in a traditional German A-frame style. Standing next to the display is the president’s daughter Tricia.

Date of Work
December 1969
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Courtesy of Jennifer B. Pickens/Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum/NARA