Remarks by President Obama at Lighting of the National Christmas Tree

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–December 1, 2011 – 5:31 P.M. EST

        THE PRESIDENT:  It’s nice having your own band.  Please have a seat, everyone.  Merry Christmas!  Merry Christmas!

        Thank you, Secretary Salazar, for that introduction and for your hard work to preserve and protect our land and our water and our wildlife.  I also want to thank Minister Rogers for the beautiful invocation, as well as Neil Mulholland and everyone at the National Park Foundation and…