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 | Diana Walker, 1979 |
| President Carter and Vice President Mondale (right) listen to Elie Wiesel speak at the National Civic Holocaust Commemoration Ceremony in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol. |
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| In 1978, on the 30th anniversary of the founding of Israel, President Carter invited Elie Wiesel, a concentration camp survivor and passionate chronicler of the Holocaust, to chair a commission to commemorate the genocide of Jews and many others in Europe during the 1930s and 1940s. The work of the Presidential Commission on the Holocaust ultimately resulted in several actions, including the establishment of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This museum was open to the public on April 26, 1993, with the Dalai Lama as the first official visitor. At 180 feet tall, the Rotunda is the symbolic and physical heart of the U.S. Capitol. Inspired by the Pantheon in Rome, the Rotunda was completed in 1824, and it's where presidents from Abraham Lincoln to Lyndon Johnson have lain in state. |
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| What's going on in this picture? What's the photographer trying to do, and how does the focus of the photo achieve that goal? What distinguishes Carter from the others in the picture? |
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