![]() WASHINGTON, DC| JanuPresident Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris honored the 2022 NBA champion Golden State Warriors in the East Room of the White House on Tuesday, January 17, 2023. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) Win McNamee, Staff / Getty Images Show More Show Less 2 of4 The Warriors won the 2022 NBA Championship. President Joe Biden poses for a photo with the Golden State Warriors during a ceremony honoring the team in the East Room of the White House Januin Washington, DC. All rights reserved.WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 17: U.S. ™ & © 2022 Cable News Network, Inc., a WarnerMedia Company. To this day, the egg roll remains one of the only times of the year that the White House South Lawn is open to the public - with tickets - to enjoy. The Trump administration saw a return to Egg Roll basics, with activity stations, egg and cookie decorating and costumed characters. Beyoncé and Jay-Z were among the attendees in 2016. ![]() Cold weather was to blame for depressed turnout in 1940, when just under 5,500 children attended, the Syracuse Herald-Journal reported.ĭuring the Obama administration, first lady Michelle Obama used the egg roll to promote her “Let’s Move” initiative, and the star-studded lineup included performances by Justin Bieber and Ariana Grande. She carried the pet indoors and returned to the delight of the crowd,” the report said.Įleanor Roosevelt oversaw the egg roll during her husband’s four terms in office, including 1937, when more than 50,000 children attended. But the first lady was not so easily discouraged. “The crush was too much for Rebecca and she showed her displeasure plainly. In 1927, the Post reported that Grace Coolidge brought her pet raccoon, Rebecca, out on the grounds on a leash, to Rebecca’s annoyance. The tradition continues as a collaboration between the White House, the White House Historical Association and the National Park Service.įlorence Harding dyed the eggs herself in 1921, The Washington Post reported at the time. Hayes allowed children to roll their eggs on the White House South Lawn.Īccording to an article in that evening’s edition of the Evening Star, per the National Archives, the children were quite pleased with their new egg rolling headquarters: “Driven out of the Capitol grounds, the children advanced on the White House grounds to-day and rolled eggs down the terraces back of the Mansion, and played among the shrubbery to their heart’s content.” Grant signed legislation to protect Capitol grounds, which prohibited egg rolling, per the National Archives.īut in 1878, a more egg-friendly President Rutherford B. Rathbone observed “the wanton destruction of the grass on the terraces of the park,” President Ulysses S. After a particularly rotten 1876 roll in which eyewitness John C. ![]() The egg rolling tradition began in the 1870s on US Capitol grounds. There is a “backup egg” just in case, Metz said, “But the goal is to be very, very careful.” Two of the 45 eggs couldn’t be tracked down and were replicated for the exhibition.īiden will be presented with the 2022 egg on Monday, pending its arrival intact. Most of the 45 eggs are stored at the American Egg Board’s headquarters in Chicago, but some of them belong to presidential libraries or the White House Historical Association. The diapered eggs are then flown with a member of the egg board to Washington. The safest way to transport a painted egg, Metz told CNN, is to wrap it “very gingerly” in a clean diaper. Getting all of those extremely delicate painted eggs to the White House for the exhibition was a challenge. This year, all 45 eggs that have been presented to first ladies over the years are being displayed together for the first time in a special “Colonnade of Eggs” in the East Wing of the White House for visitors to view on tours. Artist Russ Hagen, a member of the International Egg Art Guild, was selected to paint the 20 commemorative eggs, a months-long undertaking that included a design to match the “EGGucation” theme created by Mary O’Reilly and the inside of a real chicken egg being blown out through a special process, leaving the shell intact, before the decoration could begin. The American Egg Board will also present its annual commemorative egg to the first lady, part of a 45-year tradition beginning with the Carter administration.
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