Question: Which First Lady was the first to decorate the White House for Halloween?
Answer: On October 30, 1958, First Lady Mamie Eisenhower decorated the White House for Halloween for the first time. She hosted a lunch for the wives of staff members in the State Dining Room of the White House. Decorations included skeletons hanging from the wall lights, yellow jack-o’-lanterns, and shocks of dried corn in the corners of the room, and State Dining Room columns that were decorated at their bases with brown corn stalks, pumpkins, and red apples.