months in advance to get the home ready for the holidays. colleen christian burke is an interior designer part of multiple decorating teams for michelle obama this year and laura bush in 2008. she s the author of chris ma mass with the first ladies from jacqueline kennedy to michelle obama. thanks for being with us. if you can start with this year s theme, gather round. what did it take to pull the white house together for christmas this year? gather round is a theme mrs. obama picked. she always cuts too the heart of the matter and 85 of us got together on thanksgiving night to start working for six days straight to pull the white house into the spectacular shape that it is now. so it was a great deal of fun and a lot of work. your book deals with hoe all of the first ladies through the years did the white house over the years.
i have a vision that hillary is less into the first lady thing than others. is that right or wrong? that s absolutely wrong. that was my impression too. i thought she was going to be not so into it. she had other things little bit. but she really recreated christmas every year and she was spectacular. good. i love some of these photos from the 80s in your wachovia. the reagans like to bring a surprise celebrity santa the house every year. larry hagman from dallas ,dom dell owe weise, mr. t. kelly freaking out about it. tell us how they brought hollywood flair. i love mrs. reagan and that mr. t shot. it was so much fun. nancy brought a lot of glitz and glaum our to the white house after the carters. she really you said the game and it was really amazing and so many trees and everything was gold. and it was really great. well, and colleen, talk about how do the different
0 them over the top for 2013. what present pro craft nation pore tends for profit and employment nor 2014. obama care, how many are your signups? i m krystal ball carolling to you from pittsburgh and all the white house wants for christmas are big enrollment numbers. where things stand today the first major deadline for the law. baby it s warm outside. sure there was ice and snow but folks in short and flooding and tornado. we ve got your christmas forecast coming up. a white house christmas, a member of my shell obama s decorating committee will tell us what it takes to turn 1600 penn into a winter wonderland. this is a whole different kind of stimulation for your senses. you re in the cycle. i think it s very vital that s jimmy fallon and justin timberlake setting the mood for the holidays. today is the day before the day before christmas and the malls are mobs and santa is making his last minute updates to naughty and nice list. he s black, you know how it goes. checki
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snowflakes. she had a tradition of celebrity santas. so she actually had mr. t come to the white house for christmas and just this great visual of our first lady with the a team. i loved that show. and laura bush. you were on the decorating committee then. i was part of the decorating team. do tell. it was a red, white and blue christmas for their last year in office and it was an election year. and she was very hands on, walked through the decorations a lot, told us to fine tune it. we were working on these really beautiful snowy trees and it was too much snow, too little snow. so it was a lot of give and take til we got her vision perfect. you got it just right. one tip that could translate from white house to your house out there in termination of decorating in terms of decorating. themes can help. but don t be afraid. at the white house, they like to think big, like anything can go on a christmas tree, a picture frame. i ve seen them put chairs on the tree. you can p