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- Vermeil Room – Gift of the Visual Arts
- White House Correspondents’ Dinner
- For The Holidays, The Obamas Open Up The White House One Last Time
- MORE: Jill Biden hosts tea for female faith leaders and others, including South Carolina prayer partner
- This family's game board is a treasured Hannukah relic
- The Bidens unveil their first White House Christmas decorations
Dr. Biden also invited National Guard families to be the first members of the public to experience the decor. With some holiday spirit and over 100 volunteers, the White House has been decorated in the theme of "gifts from the heart." The theme honors front-line workers, first responders and the military. The Red Room captures the joy and wonder of the holiday season by celebrating the Gift of the Performing Arts. Ballet slippers, tap shoes, and musical notes dance around the tree like sugarplum fairies. We are restoring the soul of this Nation with love and understanding, with care and compassion, and most of all, with gratitude.
Vermeil Room – Gift of the Visual Arts
Winter trees, woodland animals and glowing lanterns placed along the hallway help give the feeling of walking through snow. Santa Claus in his sleigh and a team of reindeer fly through the columns of the Entrance Hall of the White House. “TikTok users are online generally and that’s a lot of different places,” said Butterfield, who was also deputy director of digital advertising for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign. TikTok has 170 million U.S. users and a study released last November by the Pew Research Center found that about a third of U.S. adults under 30 regularly got news from TikTok, compared to 14% of all adults. Former President Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, now publicly opposes a TikTok ban after issuing an executive order while in office trying to ban the app if ByteDance didn’t sell it. The law Biden signed Wednesday would force ByteDance to sell the app to a U.S. company within a year or face a national ban.
White House Correspondents’ Dinner
To celebrate the Gift of the Visual Arts, the Vermeil (French for “gilded silver”) Room glows with bright, bold, colorful paint brushes and paint swatches, representing the diverse American artists whose talents bring delight to all. From historic portraits to graphic art displays, from light installations to marble sculptures, from wood carvings to children’s handprint art, the visual arts bring us joy, calm our minds, and inspire our imaginations. This year, stacks of books as well as butterflies and birds made of recycled newspapers decorate the Library, reminding us that, with the Gift of Learning, we can soar to places we never imagined and rise to meet any challenge. Educators learned how to connect with students in new and innovative ways, pushing through the challenges of the pandemic.
For The Holidays, The Obamas Open Up The White House One Last Time
Wrapping the branches of the room’s Christmas tree are garlands of intertwined hands symbolizing friendship, fellowship, and merriment. “Each room is designed to capture this pure, unfiltered delight and imagination” so visitors “see this time of year through the wondrous, sparkling eyes of children,” the first lady said Monday at the first of a month’s worth of holiday receptions. The Red Room, decorated to represent the gift of the performing arts, includes brass instruments hanging from the mantel. The Blue Room, where the official White House Christmas tree stands, represents the gift of peace and unity.
Some of the decorations are do-it-yourself projects that the first lady hopes people will be encouraged to recreate for themselves, aides said. They include plastic drinking cups turned into bells and table-top Christmas trees made from foam shapes and dollar store ramekins. The decorations include more than 83,000 twinkling lights on trees, garlands, wreaths and other displays, 77 Christmas trees and 25 wreaths on the White House exterior.
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Mayor Coffman, thank you for helping us make women’s health research a priority for the women of Aurora. You have dedicated yourself to common-sense solutions for the people of Colorado, and the President and I applaud your leadership. Dianne, you took my breath away last night – it was cold and late, very late, and you were out at the airport to welcome me to Colorado – your service knows no bounds. The 2024 White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner was held in Washington, D.C., on Saturday. This yearly event highlights the significance of the First Amendment, supports WHCA scholarships and recognizes outstanding journalists with WHCA awards.
MORE: Jill Biden hosts tea for female faith leaders and others, including South Carolina prayer partner
"But it's in these times, when we are searching for hope and healing, these points of light, all of them ... the most that we need is each other," she said. "That's when we need each other the most because, you know, children have something to teach us if we're wise enough to listen -- how to remain present, even as a busy world beckons us." Reflecting on this year's theme, Biden said magic, wonder and joy can sometimes be hard to find.
This family's game board is a treasured Hannukah relic
He also said that Liberty and Bell "love Honeycrisp apples, ice hockey," and the Mall of America, adding, "I sure as hell would like to see them play ice hockey." Former President Donald Trump is escalating his attacks on President Biden in another sign his campaign is looking past the Republican primaries — and focusing more on the general election ahead. Caitlin O'Kane is a New York City journalist who works on the CBS News social media team as a senior manager of content and production. She writes about a variety of topics and produces "The Uplift," CBS News' streaming show that focuses on good news. The theme of President Joe Biden’s third Christmas in the White House is “Magic, Wonder and Joy.” From oversized candy canes to Santa’s sleigh, the decor nods to several Christmas tales. This year's annual gingerbread house was created using 40 sheets of cookie and gingerbread dough, 90 pounds of pastillage, 30 pounds of chocolate and 50 pounds of royal icing, the first lady's office said.
The East Room, the largest room in the White House, represents the gift of gratitude. It is decorated with a Neapolitan crèche that includes over 40 figurines from the 18th century; the crèche has been displayed every holiday season since 1967. One of the first Christmas trees visitors see after entering the White House is decorated with wooden gold star ornaments engraved with the names of fallen service members. One of the first Christmas trees visitors will see is decorated with wooden gold star ornaments engraved with the names of fallen service members.
Jill Biden Receives the 'Magnificent' White House Christmas Tree Alongside Military Families - PEOPLE
Jill Biden Receives the 'Magnificent' White House Christmas Tree Alongside Military Families.
Posted: Mon, 20 Nov 2023 08:00:00 GMT [source]
Featured here is a Christmas tree that honors military members "who have laid down their lives for our country, and the families who carry on their legacies." Jill Biden on Monday unveiled this year's White House holiday decorations, themed around the idea of childlike wonder and featuring some 14,975 feet of ribbon, over 350 candles, and more than 33,892 ornaments. Biden detailed the festive decor that visitors will see as they travel throughout the White House, which includes 98 Christmas trees, 72 classic wreaths and more than 140,000 holiday lights. The decor celebrates the 200th anniversary of the classic tale "Twas the Night Before Christmas," Biden said. The hallway alcoves and tree displays depict wintry scenes of life within our towns and cities, reflecting the solace of faith, the lasting bonds of community, and the perseverance of the American spirit. Just like the shooting stars in the night sky, we are encouraged by the brightness of tomorrow and the hope it can bring.
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt dedicated this room to serve as the White House Library in 1935. This space now holds approximately 2,700 volumes of books, focusing primarily on American history and literature. The traditional gingerbread White House recreates the classic story by featuring a sugar cookie replica of the book along with Santa's sleigh flying above the grounds. Throughout the décor are numerous nods to the 200th anniversary of the publication in 1823 of the poem and book "'Twas the Night Before Christmas." We'll be in touch with the latest information on how President Biden and his administration are working for the American people, as well as ways you can get involved and help our country build back better. A new addition to the White House collection this year is a menorah, which is lit nightly during the eight-day Jewish festival of Hanukkah.
America’s students and families needed champions like never before, and they found their heroes in educators. Ninety-eight Christmas trees, nearly 34,000 ornaments, over 22,000 bells and more than 350 candles were used in the décor, according to the White House. Nearly 142,500 lights illuminate trees, garlands, wreaths and other displays, and nearly 15,000 feet (4,600 meters) of ribbon are part of it all. The official White House Menorah is on display in the Cross Hall connecting the State Dining Room and the East Room, which is decorated with trees and various advent calendars. The official White House Christmas tree, an 18.5-foot-tall (5.6-meter-tall) Fraser fir, stands in its usual place in the Blue Room.
"A vintage passenger train weaves around the tree's base. I know the kids are just going to love it when they visit." "Each room is designed to capture this pure, unfiltered delight and imagination -- to see this season, this time of year through the wondrous, sparkling eyes of children," she said. The Grand Foyer and Cross Hall of the White House celebrate the Gift of Faith and Community.
A White House military social aide stands near the official White House Christmas tree in the Blue Room during a press preview of the White House's holiday decorations on Nov. 29. Wreathes decorate the backs of chairs in the room that displays the White House's collection of state china. In the East Colonnade and East Landing, doves and shooting stars adorn the hallways. The decorations honor the service of COVID-19 front-line workers and first responders.
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