The 2015 White House ornament honors the administration of former President Calvin Coolidge. The double-sided, brass plated with nickel and 24k gold crafted ornament pays tribute to the 30th ...

President Calvin Coolidge led the first National Christmas Tree lighting ceremony on the Ellipse in 1923, ... led a press tour of White House Christmas decorations in 1972. Bettmann Archive/Getty ...

The Coolidge’s Christmas was not all singing and gifts. The president’s youngest son, Calvin Jr., had contracted blood poisoning while playing tennis on the White House courts.

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 ...

The national Christmas Tree Lighting ceremony began in 1923 with President Calvin Coolidge, when he lit a 48-foot balsam fir tree from Vermont with festive bulbs in red, white and green on ...

President Calvin Coolidge participates in the first National Christmas Tree lighting ceremony on the Ellipse on Dec. 24, 1923. Library of Congress photo Editor’s note: Mark Bushnell is a Vermont ...

December of 1923 was, like 2020, a difficult time for America. The dual horrors of World War I and the Spanish Flu were not far in the past; and only in August, President Warren G. Harding had died… ...

Now standing upright again, the National Christmas Tree outside of the White House is set to be lit for the 2023 holiday season in a special ceremony.. The 101st National Christmas Tree Lighting ...

An overhead view of Calvin Coolidge’s 21 Massasoit St. home in Northampton on the morning of July 27, 1920, with the crowd outside on Notification Day, a celebration of his nomination for vice ...