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As
the Easter Monday event became more of an attraction,
a rule was fixed to limit the number of people coming
into the enclosed South Lawn. The rule stated that a “grown
person would be admitted only when accompanied by a child”
and vice versa. As a result, unescorted egg rollers and
childless adults began teaming up at random so that each
could gain admittance. Enterprising children even charged
a fee for parading a series of unrelated “grown
persons” past the security guards. The situation
grew so scandalous that on Easter Monday 1939, the Evening
Star reported that Secret Service men were stationed at
the White House gates to “break up the kids’
rackets.”
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