Diana Hopkins Diana lived with her father and stepmother at the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/66">White House</a> from 1940-1943, when her father, Harry Hopkins, served as a close adviser to President <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/27">Franklin D. Roosevelt</a>. Diana participated in the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/219">Easter Egg Roll</a> each year that she lived in the White House. In 1943, Diana, at the age of 11, was given permission to plant a <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/391">Victory Garden </a>on the South Lawn of the White House grounds. Victory Gardens were small vegetable gardens grown by families to supplement the food rations they received during World War II. <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=39&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Diana+Hopkins">Diana Hopkins</a> Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. <a href="http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2003690075/">View original photograph</a>. <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=38&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=1920-1949">1920-1949</a>