A Look Back at the White House Easter Egg Roll Inline

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    President Obama, 2012

    CNCA7C President Barack Obama at the 2012 White House Easter Egg Roll.

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    Bill and Hillary Clinton, 1995

    DFRX1J US President Bill Clinton and First Lady Hillary Clinton with the Easter Bunny during the annual Easter Egg Roll at the White House April 17, 1995 in Washington, DC. The Clintons hosted thousands of children who turned out to search for more than 25,000 wooden and hard boiled eggs.

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    George H. W. Bush with family, Christopher Reeve, and Marshall Bush

    Pres. Bush (C) playing whistle master, hosting WH lawn easter egg roll, w. granddaughter Marshall (L) in game & actor Christopher Reeve (L). (Photo by Diana Walker//Time Life Pictures/Getty Images)

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    Ronald Reagan

    (Original Caption) Washington, D.C.: Children play under a large stuffed rabbit on the lawn of the White House during an Easter Egg Rolling Contest being sponsored by President Ronald Reagan.

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    Jimmy Carter

    (Original Caption) Washington: Pres. Carter carries his grandson, Jason on his shoulders as he mingled on the South Lawn of the White House with thousands of young children in the traditional Easter Egg Roll. With them are Amy, First Lady Rosalynn; and at right, Judy, Jason'r mother.

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    Eleanor Roosevelt

    (Original Caption) 4/17/1933-Washington, D.C.- Easter Monday the lawn of the White House was crowded with the participants in the annual Easter Egg rolling festival. The above photo shows Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, her grandaughter Sistie, and Mrs. Curtis Dall, sister's mother as they strolled thru the crowd on the White House Lawn.

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    Easter 1961

    (Original Caption) 4/3/1961-Washington, DC- Youngsters roll their eggs on the White House lawn today in the annual Easter Egg Roll despite the absence of the star attractions, President Kennedy and his family. The custon was started in 1878 by the wife of President Rutherford Hayes.

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    Easter 1921

    (Original Caption) 3/28/1921-Washington, DC- Thousands of Washington children and parents took posession of the White House lawns yesterday to take part in the greatest Easter Egg rolling contest Washington has ever seen. This remarkable and unusual photograph shows the vast crowds on the lawns and in the background, the White House.