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White House celebrates Easter with celebrities, athletes and yoga By Jonathan Easley - 04/06/12 04:32 PM ET Actress Julianne Moore, singer Janelle Monáe, and tennis player Andy Roddick will be among the guests at the 134th annual Easter Egg Roll at the White House on Monday. The event is centered around the first lady’s Let’s Move initiative, which promotes healthy, active lifestyles for children, and will include a yoga garden, obstacle course, instruction from players and coaches on professional sports teams, and healthy eating tips from celebrity chefs. According to an administration press release, more than 30,000 people from around...

Under sunny skies with temperatures hovering just below 80 degrees, nearly 30,000 people gathered on the White House lawn for the Easter Egg Roll. This year, in sync with First Lady Michelle Obama’s initiative to combat childhood obesity through the Let’s Move Campaign, the event was themed “Ready, Set, Go!” to encourage a health lifestyle. “Today we have transformed the south lawn into a playground,” said the first lady, who donned a festive a hot pink sweater and silver sneakers, in opening remarks to a crowd of youngsters. “And our hope today is in addition to having fun doing some...

Below is my quick research of the National Archives and the Presidential Libraries for Easter Photos. Presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W.H. Bush, Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter took time to greet the Easter Bunny and the enthusiastic egg-rollers. The photos capture the fabulous presence of the First Ladies Michelle Obama, Laura Bush, Barbara Bush, Nancy Reagan, Rosalyn Carter and Eleanor Roosevelt at the celebrations.

The Obama administration announced on Tuesday it has reserved 3,000 free tickets to the annual White House Easter Egg Roll for students in D.C.-area public and charter schools, but not for children who attend private or parochial schools. Why exclude children in private and parochial schools, asked the father of a parochial school student at Tuesday’s press conference where U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan and District of Columbia Mayor Adrian Fenty announced the ticket giveaway. “These tickets are from the White House to public schools, and we’re appreciative, but there may be other things unrelated to this press conference,” Fenty...

(Fox News) - This year’s White House Easter Egg roll will be eggs-actly what the bunny ordered. The environmentally concerned bunny, that is. A White House announcement Monday said the eggs at this year’s April 5 roll will be made from paperboard that contains no wood fibers from endangered forests, is recyclable and features vegetable-oil based inks and a water-based coating. What’s more, they’ll come in purple, pink, green and yellow and feature the stamped signatures of both President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama.

Note: The following text is a quote: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-by-the-President-at-Human-Rights-Campaign-Dinner/ THE BRIEFING ROOM THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary __________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release October 10, 2009 REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT AT HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN DINNER Walter E. Convention Center Washington, D.C. 8:10 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Thank you, everybody. Please, you're making me blush. (Laughter.) AUDIENCE MEMBER: We love you, Barack! THE PRESIDENT: I love you back. (Applause.) To Joe Solmonese, who's doing an outstanding job on behalf of HRC. (Applause.) To my great friend and supporter, Terry Bean, co-founder of HRC. (Applause.) Representative Patrick Kennedy. (Applause.) David Huebner, the...

In an effort to politicize and trash even the Lord's Arising, President Obama went out of his way to invite more then 110 gay and lesbian couples to have their "children" roll Easter Eggs on the White House lawn. What a wonderful way to celebrate Easter... the day the Lord rose from the dead. I'd say more but I'm too disgusted. I would post a direct link to the video or transcript but neither are available. Gee, I wonder if he'll invite them back when he has a WH dinner to break the Ramadan fast.

WASHINGTON – Hundreds of children are scurrying for positioning on the White House South Lawn for one of the city's most heavily anticipated happenings: The annual Easter Egg Roll. Bundled up against the crisp morning air under partially cloudy skies, children queued with oversized spoons to shove decorated eggs across the grass in race competition, which will begin at 10 a.m. EDT. Music star Fergie performed for large crowd of children and camera-wielding parents nodding their heads in time with the music. The White House allotted tickets for the event to gay and lesbian parents as part of the Obama...

WASHINGTON — This year’s White House Easter Egg Roll will be more Fergalicious than ever, with pop diva Fergie headlining the entertainment. The Obama administration has invited 30,000 people to watch the Black Eyed Peas frontwoman, reggae star Ziggy Marley and children’s favorites SteveSongs and Imagination Movers perform Monday on a new stage facing the White House. Chefs Art Smith, Spike Mendelsohn and Jose Andres plan to show guests how to cook healthful foods. And Education Secretary Arne Duncan will join actors James Cromwell and Josh Duhamel to read to the kids

would like to know whether anyone local -- from the Washington area -- was successful in obtaining tickets to tomorrow's White House Easter Egg Roll. We have gone in the past, waited in line in the wee hours of the morning, sometimes in soaking rain or snow, and with that patience obtained tickets nearly each time we have tried. This year marks the end of the Roll for most folks, I think. With the White House's decision to distribute tickets online to make the event more available to people all over the country, the chances of getting tickets are now...

CBN: Families from 45 different states are expected to attend the event, but not all of them [tickets] have been distributed in a democratic fashion. Special blocks of tickets have been allocated to military families, administration families, DC public school children, and families of gay and lesbian parents.

President Obama's White House saved Easter Egg Roll tickets for gay and lesbian parents, reaching out to groups that felt ostracized by previous administrations. The White House would not say how many tickets were set aside for the group for Monday's annual celebration, only noting that it was far fewer than the large block set aside for military families and the 2,000 saved for D.C. public schools. There also is a batch for administration employees and their children. The White House Office of Public Liaison coordinated with several groups representing lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) issues and saved a...

WASHINGTON -- The White House is allocating tickets for the upcoming Easter Egg Roll to gay and lesbian families as part of the Obama administration's outreach to diverse communities. Families say the gesture shows that the new Democratic administration values them as equal to other families.

WH Easter Egg Roll hot ticket online Parents peeved as free passes are auctioned off Jim McElhatton Saturday, March 28, 2009 The hottest free ticket in town is getting expensive. After the Obama White House distributed passes to the annual Easter Egg Roll online Thursday, six tickets apparently sold on eBay for nearly $1,000, while dozens of ticket seekers posted ads elsewhere offering everything from Redskins seats to a professional photo shoot for a chance to attend the April 13 event. Leticia Barr said she thought it was a "brilliant idea" when the White House decided to give away tickets...

Tickets to the White House's annual Easter Egg Roll will for the first time be distributed online. Gone is the first-come, first-served timed ticket distribution at the visitors kiosk on the ellipse the week before the roll and the smaller giveaway the morning of the roll. Those procedures, in place for the past eight years, replaced the traditional marathon waiting line for tickets that often began on Easter and lasted into Monday, the day of the roll. The tickets are being made available online so "more children and families from across the United States have the opportunity to experience this...

The President and First Lady spent the weekend at Camp David returning to the White House on Sunday. . Today the President took part in the Easter Egg Roll at the White House, met with India ' s Foreign Minister Pranab Kumar Mukherjee, attended a National Security Council meeting and made a statement at the State Department.Pray for President Bush -- Day 2748 The Vice President continued his overseas trip today with meetings in Israel and Turkey. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met with India's External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee at the State Department Secretary of Defense Robert Gates met...

The President and the First Lady spent the Easter Weekend in Texas Today the President visit Border Patrol Agents and the First Lady hosted the Easter Egg Roll at the White House. The Vice President's wife also was at this event along with Members of the Administration Enjoy your visit to Sanity Island

First lady Laura Bush poses with 14-month-old Nicola Pasqua Teutonico of New York at the annual 2006 White House Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington