The White House celebrates the holiday season

Presidents and their families celebrate Christmas at the White House and in Washington, from Franklin D. Roosevelt bouncing his grandchildren on his knee in 1939, Nancy Reagan hugging Mr. T in 1983 to President George W. Bush reading to kids in 2002.

Lighted Christmas trees in front of the portals of the White House in Washington on Dec. 25, 1931. (AP Photo)

President Franklin D. Roosevelt holds two of his grandchildren on Christmas Day, Dec. 25, 1939, in the East Room of the White House in Washington. At left is Franklin Roosevelt III, son of FDR Jr., and Johnny Boettiger, nine-month-old son of the president's daughter Anna Boettiger and her husband John. (AP Photo/George R. Skadding)

President Franklin D. Roosevelt tries to get the attention of grandchild Franklin Roosevelt III, seated on his mother's lap, as young Johnny Boettiger crawls away in the foreground during a Christmas photo session in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., Dec. 25, 1939. (AP Photo/George R. Skadding)

President Eisenhower poses with members of his family during a Christmas Eve picture taking session in the west sitting room of the second floor residence section of the White House in Washington on Dec. 24, 1960. (AP Photo/Henry Griffin )

The State Dining Room where the White House holds its formal dinner parties, was jammed with balloon-holding youngsters at a Christmas party for orphans, Dec. 22, 1961. (AP Photo/Bob Schutz)

The Christmas tree in the White House Blue Room gets Caroline Kennedy's attention, Dec. 13, 1961 as she inspects it before a party for White House employees given by her parents. (AP Photo/Henry Burroughs)

U.S. President John F. Kennedy and his wife Jacqueline Kennedy stand by the Christmas tree in the main entrance hall of the White House during a party for the staff of the Executive Mansion in Washington D.C. on Dec. 12, 1962. (AP Photo)

President Lyndon Johnson and Lady Bird Johnson, and Yuki, the White House pet, pose beside the family Christmas tree in Washington, Dec. 24, 1967, a Norway spruce. (AP Photo)

First lady Pat Nixon holds stockings carrying the names of daughters Julie and Tricia as she helps with pre-Christmas decorating at the White House in Washington, Dec. 6, 1969. (AP Photo/Henry Burroughs)

U.S. President Richard Nixon, first lady Pat Nixon and their daughter Tricia stand beside the Christmas tree in the main lobby of the White House on Dec. 21, 1969, following a worship service. (AP Photo)

First lady Betty Ford looks over decorations and presents under the White House Christmas tree in Washington in the Blue Room of the presidential mansion in Washington, Dec, 9, 1976. (AP Photo/Charles Tasnadi)

First lady Nancy Reagan enlists the help of television's Mr. T during a Christmas tour of the White House for the media on Monday, Dec. 13, 1983 in Washington. (AP Photo/Ira Schwarz)

First Lady Nancy Reagan, left, and Santa, Dom DeLuise, throw some artificial snow in the air during a press preview of White House decorations, Monday, Dec. 14, 1987, Washington, D.C. (AP Photo/Barry Thumma)

First lady Nancy Reagan glances towards ALF, an alien life form, during a Christmas party for Children of Washington's diplomatic corp at the White House Monday, Dec. 14, 1987. (AP Photo)

America's First Lady Nancy Reagan holding Rex the dog with Larry Hagman who is dressed as Santa, at the White House, Monday, Dec. 9, 1985, in Washington, USA. (AP Photo/Bob Daugherty)

President Ronald Reagan and Nancy Regan have a new guest for its first Christmas, their dog Lucky, as she checks the gifts with the Reagan's in front of the family quarter's tree at the White House, Dec. 24, 1984 in Washington. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)

President-elect George Bush looks on as his wife Barbara decorates the Christmas tree at the Bush's Washington residence, Dec. 11, 1988. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)

First Lady Barbara Bush holds Millie after the spaniel showed interest in the 18-foot Fraser Fir which arrived at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 6, 1989. (AP Photo/Doug Mills)

U.S. President George Bush and Barbara Bush pose with children dressed as elves while attending the taping of NBC's "Christmas in Washington" Sunday, Dec. 10, 1989 in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Tasnadi)

U.S. President Bill Clinton reads The Night Before Christmas to Washington area elementary school students, in the State Dining Room of the White House, Washington, Friday, Dec. 17, 1993. (AP Photo/Joe Marquette)

President Bill Clinton, first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton and daughter Chelsea, along with Dacie Marshall, five and one-half, sing during the Pageant of Peace on the Ellipse in Washington, Dec. 7, 1994. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

President Bush begins to read to area children as he participates in the White House children's story hour, Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2002, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)

President Bush poses with unidentified members of the Washington Ballet that performed in a children's Christmas reception program Monday, Dec. 8, 2003, at the White House in Washington for local children of military families. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)

First lady Laura Bush shows of a ginger bread White House while hosting a media preview of the 2006 holiday decorations at the White House in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 30, 2006. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)

The National Christmas Tree is lit at the Ellipse, near the White House, left, during a ceremony marking the beginning of a three-week Christmas Pageant of Peace, Thursday, Dec. 7, 2006, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

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