Other Treats
Chocolate Drizzled Popcorn with Peanuts
This recipe is an irresistible blend of sweet and salty. You can start eating, and eating, and before you know it, you're hooked!
Holiday Fun Facts:
  • More than 50,000 people are expected to attend 28 holiday parties at the White House in December 2009.
  • In 1843, "A Christmas Carol" was written by Charles Dickens in just six weeks.
  • In 1937, the first postage stamp to commemorate Christmas was issued in Austria.
  • 92 volunteers from 24 states, as well as residence staff, spent 3,400 hours decorating the White House.
  • The poinsettia plant was brought into the United States from Mexico by Joel Poinsett in the early 1800's.
  • Since 1933, the Radio City Music Hall Christmas Spectacular has been a mainstay for the holidays in New York City.
  • The 2009 White House Blue Room Christmas Tree is an 18 1/2-by-13-foot Douglas fir.
  • The American version of St. Nicholas, or Santa Claus originally came from the Dutch version called Sint Klaas.
  • Electric lights for trees were first used in the White House in 1895.
  • The first president to decorate the White House Christmas tree in the United States was Franklin Pierce.
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