Easter Roll Cybercast -HL Collection

The year is 1998, and for the first time, the White House Easter Egg Roll was cybercast over the Internet, allowing children worldwide to "virtually" participate in the annual Easter festivities. Events included storytelling at the reading nook, the egg roll, the welcoming remarks, and more. Now, thanks to the Howard Lefkowitz Collection, we can hop back in time and revisit the 1998 Easter Egg Roll.

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Check out this gallery to see the day's events and behind-the-scenes.

Fun Facts About the White House Easter Egg Roll

• After, egg rolls were banned from the Capitol grounds because of the mess. President Rutherford B. Hayes opened the White House’s grounds to egg rollers in 1878 for the first public White House Easter Egg Roll.
• To curb the crowds, a new rule requiring adults to be accompanied by a child was introduced during Theodore Roosevelt’s presidency.

• President Warren G. Harding’s Airedale terrier Laddie Boy was the first presidential pet to host the festivities in 1923.
• The only president to never host an Easter Egg Roll was President Harry S. Truman. The event was cancelled from 1946 to 1952 to support ongoing food conservation efforts, and then much-needed renovations turned the White House into a muddy construction site.
• The first official egg roll race took place in 1974 with borrowed spoons from the White House Kitchen during the Richard Nixon presidency.
• Wooden souvenir eggs –and later the official keepsake–were introduced by First Lady Nancy Reagan in 1981.

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Complete these puzzles to reveal pictures from the event. Photo credit: William J. Clinton Presidential Library and Museum/NARA

Play this matching game to see eggs in all their forms at the White House Easter Egg Roll!