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Sundown: Obama Gets the Picture

Plus dreidel for fame and fortune, mixed marriages, and more
By Hadara Graubart | 5:00 PM Nov 16, 2009

• During President Barack Obama’s term, the painting in the Oval Office’s private dining room has switched from a portrait of George Washington to a pastoral landscape to a Civil War-era painting of Abraham Lincoln and his generals called “The Peacemaker,” which graced the wall during Obama’s recent conference with Israeli Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu. ...