Today is the White House Easter Egg Roll. In 2017, we looked at the scrutiny the White House faced over its lack of preparation for one of Washington's oldest traditions. Here's a look the White House Easter Egg Roll as far back as 1889 👇
a HeatStreet headline. Landmines abound: A White House Visitors’ Office that isn’t fully staffed, near-missed deadlines to obtain commemorative wooden eggs and an off-site first lady.
The roots of the Easter Egg Roll are often traced to President James Madison and first lady, Dolly Madison, but these early public celebrations were held on Capitol Hill. The first roll at the White House was in 1878, and came about as an act of necessity: After a law was passed prohibiting children from disrupting the newly landscaped lawn on Capitol Hill, President Rutherford B. Hayes opened up the White House grounds for egg rollers.
First lady Eleanor Roosevelt surrounded by Secret Service agents and White House police at the Easter Egg Roll in March 1940. Mrs. Roosevelt was a big fan of the festivities and refused to cut it even at the height of World War II. In 1940 and 1941, she invited a group of European refugee children as her guests.During the Truman years, the Easter Egg Roll was once again discontinued and remained slow to return due to construction on the South Lawn. It came back in 1953 under President Dwight D.
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