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- A Brief History of the White House Easter Egg Roll
- MORE: Biden condemns 'hysterical' and 'ugly' anti-LGBTQ measures
- White House Announces Theme and Activities for the 2024 Easter Egg Roll
- About the White House Historical Association
- The Official 2024 White House Christmas Ornament
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- Official 2024 White House Easter Eggs Now Available
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A Brief History of the White House Easter Egg Roll
From the roll's origins to today, we take a look at this Easter Monday tradition at the Executive Mansion. In total, approximately 40,000 people will take part in this year’s Easter “EGGucation” Roll, including thousands of military and veteran families, caregivers, and survivors. Tickets for the general public were distributed to guests from all across the country through an online public lottery. Since 1878, American presidents and their families have celebrated Easter Monday by hosting an 'egg roll' party. It has changed and evolved through the years, and each First Family has put their stamp on the popular event. In the 1870s, Capitol Hill had become a popular spot for children to roll eggs - and themselves - down the hill on Easter Monday.
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April 15 (UPI) -- For the first time in three years, the White House on Monday will host its Easter Egg Roll event -- with a school-focused "EGGucation" theme. To learn more about the annual Easter Egg Roll visit the White House Historical Association’s press collection. The egg board is also donating more than 5 million eggs to food banks nationwide in the weeks leading up to Passover and Easter to help with holiday meals, Metz said. Children roll eggs during a race at the traditional White House Easter Egg Roll. "Today I need to apologize," Montoya said, describing how she was invited by the president to attend the Pride event and was proud to speak at the National Press Club during her trip to Washington.
White House Announces Theme and Activities for the 2024 Easter Egg Roll
President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden will host approximately 30,000 people on the South Lawn of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. for the tradition dating back to the 1800s. Festively packaged, the Official 2023 White House Easter Egg Set retails for $34.95 with a limit of 15 sets per customer. Get HISTORY’s most fascinating stories delivered to your inbox three times a week. "It's a really important, time-honored tradition for our farmers to participate in," she said in an interview. The president drew criticism from top conservatives, and the campaign of former President Donald Trump, who is now running to reclaim the White House, by proclaiming March 31 as “Transgender Day of Visibility″ on a year when Easter also fell on the day. Among those participating with the children was Harry Dunn, a former police officer who defended the U.S.
Her husband, Peter Neal, interned at the White House during the Obama administration, and contributed to Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign. All U.S. citizens ages 18 and older, and foreign nationals of all ages (including children), must present a valid, government-issued photo ID upon arrival for their tour. Consistent with prior practices, public White House tour requests must be submitted a minimum of 21 days in advance and no more than 90 days in advance of the requested tour date(s).

Though no president wants to be known for cancelling the event, periods of war and food rationing have caused disruptions for the annual tradition. During 1946 and 1947, President Harry Truman did not host an egg roll due to food conservation efforts. From 1948 through 1952, Truman’s renovation of the White House made the South Lawn a construction zone.
Signatures of the president and first lady are printed on the back of the four colored eggs and Commander and Willow’s paw prints are featured on the back of the “Biden Blue” egg. In addition, the Commemorative Gold Easter Egg features the imprint of a festive bunny. On Easter Monday in 1876, upwards of 10,000 children with the day off from school marched toward the newly completed cast-iron dome of the U.S Capitol toting baskets abounding in a rainbow of colorfully dyed eggs.
Official 2024 White House Easter Eggs Now Available
The White House Historical Association’s Official White House Easter Eggs are now available ahead of this year’s White House Egg Roll which will take place April 1. Since 1981, the wooden Official White House Easter Eggs have been the official keepsake of the Egg Roll and offered for sale at the event, in the Association’s stores, and online at shop.whitehousehistory.org. After being canceled during World War I, the egg roll was again postponed after the United States entered World War II. In 1953, President Dwight D. Eisenhower revived the tradition after a 12-year hiatus.
President Biden and Jill Biden, the first lady, hosted the first Egg Roll since the beginning of the pandemic. As one of the oldest annual White House events, the White House Easter Egg Roll has dazzled families for more than one hundred years. Inflation, an outbreak of bird flu and increased demand for eggs during the holiday baking season combined to send egg prices skyrocketing last year. Metz said the donation of 30,000 eggs is a fraction of the 100 billion eggs that are produced and consumed yearly in the United States. She noted that this year’s setup included a reading nook and exhibits on space travel and dinosaur fossils.
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The hand-painted chicken egg features images of children reading and stacks of books with the words "unity," "compassion" and "kindness" written on the spines. Approximately 40,000 people and brightly colored eggs filled the grounds of the White House in the morning, continuing a tradition that started in 1878. Unlike last year’s sunny and clear weather, the rain was sporadic and temperatures chilly.
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In February, retail egg prices were down 6.7% from January, but still up 55% from February last year. The group included John Watson of Braswell Family Farms in North Carolina, who donated 30,000 eggs to the roll. President Biden and first lady Jill Biden hosted the White House Easter Egg Roll on Monday, a tradition since 1878. We'll be in touch with the latest information on how President Biden and his administration are working for the American people, as well as ways you can get involved and help our country build back better. At the Pride event, President Biden spoke out against anti-LGBTQ legislation being introduced and passed in various state legislatures around the country.
Jill Biden wants the White House's annual Easter Egg Roll to be about more than just coaxing hard-boiled eggs across the lawn to a finish line. The event dates to the presidency of Rutherford B. Hayes, who opened the White House lawn to children after they were kicked off the grounds of the U.S. A large schoolhouse erected on the South Lawn offered kids activities in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM — including making circuit-breakers or simulating a fossil dig. Youngsters also wrote notes to U.S. troops and first responders with Operation Gratitude, a nonprofit organization.
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." Egg roll guests included thousands of military and veteran families, their caregivers and survivors. Members of the general public claimed tickets through an online lottery and were being admitted in nine waves until the evening. The president then headed out on the lawn, bending down to help a few youngsters with their eggs. He blew a whistle to officially start the roll — an annual tradition first held in 1878. The American Egg Board also presented a commemorative egg to the first lady, a yearly tradition since 1977.
President Dwight D. Eisenhower revived the tradition after a twelve-year hiatus, but a string of his successors could not be at the White House on Easter Monday to greet their egg roll visitors. President Gerald R. Ford reinstated the presidential appearance in 1976—the first since Eisenhower had acted as host in 1960. During Monday morning's celebration, the White House unveiled new bunny costumes, received commemorative eggs and hosted 30,000 visitors to participate in the roll and other education-themed activities. The first annual White House Easter Egg Roll was held on April 22, 1878 after President Rutherford B. Hayes agreed to open the White House Grounds on Easter Monday. Congress had previously passed legislation to restrict public use of the Capitol Grounds, so children in the nation’s capital looked elsewhere to roll their Easter eggs.
The event was delayed because of the wet weather but children and parents began to arrive around 8 a.m. Ticketed guests invited through an online public lottery will come from all across the country. The Easter Bunny made his first appearance at the egg roll in 1969 when a member of first lady Pat Nixon’s staff donned a fleecy white costume, and he quickly proved a bigger star than the president in the eyes of some of the children.
The world has changed in untold ways since 2019, the last time 100,000 eggs were wildly bunted down the South Lawn. President Biden spent his first year in office forgoing most of the traditional events that can help blunt the daily stress of being commander in chief. But on Monday, the patter of rain was the only interference as the president and Jill Biden, the first lady, hosted the first Egg Roll since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, the largest event held at the White House since they moved in.