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The 2002 greeting card for President and Mrs. Bush features the 1938 Steinway piano in the grand foyer of the White House. The artist is Zhen-Huan Lu.
The 2002 greeting card for President and Mrs. Bush features the 1938 Steinway piano in the grand foyer of the White House. The artist is Zhen-Huan Lu.
Presidential Greeting Cards

Written on White House stationery in his own hand in 1927, President Calvin Coolidge issued the first official Christmas message to the American people. As a response to numerous requests for the President to send a holiday greeting, President Coolidge asked newspapers across the United States to publish his holiday greeting to the American people. Although he didn't speak, he participated in the first ceremonial tree lighting for the event now known as the Pageant of Peace.

President Eisenhower expanded the list of Presidential Christmas cards recipients significantly in 1953; the President sent season’s greetings to American ambassadors abroad, members of the Cabinet and Congress, foreign heads of state and government officials. Thereafter, the official Presidential Holiday Greeting was the White House Christmas card.

Past Presidential Greeting Cards

2001 Presidential Greeting Card
The President		 1998 White House Holiday Card.
Clintons		 1992 White House Holiday Card.
Bushes		 1986 White House Holiday Card.
Reagans		1978 White House Holiday Card.
Carters		 1975 White House Holiday Card.
Fords		 1971 White House Holiday Card.
Nixons
1967 White House Holiday Card.
Johnsons		 1961 White House Holiday Card.
Kennedys		 1955 White House Holiday Card.
Eisenhowers		 1951 White House Holiday Card.
Trumans		 1942 White House Holiday Card.
Roosevelts		 1932 White House Holiday Card. Courtesy the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library-Museum.
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