Its formality and tradition, and the feeling that theres a lot of joy that we would like to share with people. This is the card that i wish we could afford with private donations to send to everyone in america, but of course we cant through so i hope that the media people will be able to see it. Goodbye everybody. Our inspiration for this years theme, the kitty was too shy to come down, the theme this year for the holiday decorations is all creatures great and small. In this room, you will see papiermache models of a lot of different animals that have lived here or worked here. Back here are the shapes from Woodrow Wilsons term, when everybody who worked at the white house had gone overseas and they hired sheep to clear the white house lawn. Is will see algonquin, that the pony of one of Teddy Roosevelts son, and eli gale, Teddy Roosevelts mccall. They had a large menagerie of animals with their seven children who lived here. But every president has had some animals, somebody who lived