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National Day of Prayer: John Adams prayer for the White House

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On the second night that the United States' second president John Adams lived in the newly-built White House, he wrote in a letter to his wife the following words.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt had the words carved on a plaque and hung over the fireplace in the White House's State Dining Room:

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