White House Gingerbread: Holiday Traditions
The holiday season at the White House is celebrated with an array of annual traditions, glittering holiday décor, fresh p...
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The holiday season at the White House is celebrated with an array of annual traditions, glittering holiday décor, fresh p...
As the holidays approach, thoughts inevitably turn to sugar plums, gingerbread, and all of the other delectable treats that season...
The Coolidges celebrated their first Christmas in the White House in 1923 quietly with their sons, Calvin Jr. and John, who...
The annual White House Easter egg roll was a well-established tradition when President Herbert Hoover took office, and the Hoovers...
Versailles, Potsdam, and other grand relics of power are all imposing architecture and vistas, one always leading to another— Ossa pi...
The Roosevelts celebrated Christmas with a flurry of public and private activities. The non-stop action began the week before Christmas...
The White House Historical Association’s 2018 White House Christmas Ornament honors Harry S. Truman, the thirty-third president of the United St...
First families received turkeys as gifts long before the 1920s. Horace Vose, the “Poultry King” of southwestern Rhode Island, first sent...
In 1923 holiday anticipation grew among Washington residents, especially among the First Family. President Coolidge and First Lady Grace Coolidge awaited...
In 2005, The White House Historical Association released The White House Remembered,Volume 1: Recollections by Presidents Richard M. Nixon, Gerald R....
As the Easter Monday event became more of an attraction, a rule was fixed to limit the number of people...
Over the years, White House egg roll events have been made memorable by new attractions. In 1993, the Clintons scaled back...