The tradition, in which US presidents have been known to don green neckties, goes back to the 1950s and offers the small country special access to the US presidency at least for a day.
The tradition has continued pretty much non-stop, helped by the fact that many US presidents have had some degree of Irish blood in them."He was really big about St. Patrick's Day celebrations at the White House," said Matthew Costello, senior historian at the White House Historical Association. "There's one year he snuck off and went down to Alexandria on St. Patrick's Day to have lunch and a pint with people. And they didn't tell anybody. They told the owners of the bar, like, an hour before that the president would show up," he added. The town is just across the Potomac River in Virginia.
In the 1990s Irish leaders took this opportunity to press then president Bill Clinton to help nudge along the peace process in Northern Ireland.
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