Decades later, President Calvin Coolidge flipped the switch on the first public lighting of the National Christmas Tree. (The tree displayed in the Blue Room is still brought to the White House in ...

Calvin Coolidge was the first president to host a public Christmas celebration at the White House, with the first National Christmas Tree lighting in 1923. President Calvin Coolidge at the ...

In 1923, President Calvin Coolidge lit the first national Christmas tree on the White House lawn. Members of the First Congregational Church sang carols and the Marine band performed.. In 1942 ...

Americans showered Grace and President Calvin Coolidge with a veritable zoo of White House pets, from birds and a bear to a hippo, a wallaby, two lions and plenty of dogs.

For Christmas, the president bestowed upon Rebecca a collar embroidered with the title “White House Raccoon,” per the White House Historical Association. As Truman tells it, Coolidge also ...

The White House Historical Association described the alleged Roosevelt ban on Christmas trees at the White House as a "myth," with ... which was started in 1923 by former President Calvin Coolidge.

On Christmas Eve at the White House, Franklin Roosevelt would read aloud Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" to family and friends. Not everything has always gone according to plan.