Under President John F. Kennedy , large quantities of cigarettes were supplied to the White House and Air Force One . President Ronald Reagan , as part of his anti-drug campaigns , replaced most of the cigarettes with jars of Jelly Belly jelly beans . In 1988 , President Reagan wrote to Mars , Incorporated asking for a supply of customized M&M 's for the Moscow Summit with the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union , Mikhail Gorbachev . The First Lady , Nancy Reagan , gave them out to Russian children during the summit . After that , M&M 's became the official candy of the White House
Moscow Summit
Moscow Summit (1988)
Presidential M&M's