Later that evening, the same usher had to deliver another message to the president. He knocked on the bedroom door and announced that he had a package for the president.
Nancy Reagan told him to come in. He entered the bedroom just as the president, wearing nothing but underwear, was walking out of the dressing room. Available positions on the White House residential staff are filled by word of mouth, with employees bringing in, and vouching for, new hires.
White House chefs are world-class, and working for the White House means turning down competing job offers worth several hundred thousand dollars more. Great pride is taken not only in the food, but in its presentation. Lyndon Johnson worked erratic hours, which meant the White House chef also had to work erratic hours.
Lady Bird Johnson requested that the chef start going home at a reasonable hour, and simply leave a prepared meal in the kitchen. She would reheat the meal for the president, she said, or if she were asleep, the president could heat it when he was ready for dinner. The White House maid staff is trained to be alert for signs of unusual activity that might endanger the first family. In , a maid discovered a broken window and piece of broken concrete on the Truman Balcony. One of the maintenance headaches for White House workers is the wear and tear on the wood floors.
A staff member is shown here using a state-of-the-art floor sander on the East Room floor in while co-workers attend to various tasks. White House floral designer Rusty Young uses a variety of colors, patterns, and designs to create a striking arrangement in the Green Room in Shirley Bailey, was a veteran of the hotel industry, inspects one of the White House guest rooms in The housekeeping staff makes the beds, vacuums the floors and carpets, dusts the furniture, and ensures that the White House is always looking its best.
What happens with soft-soled shoes is that pebbles get embedded in them, so now you've got 1, people walking through with sandpaper on their feet. It was exactly the opposite of what we expected. Invitations, menus, place cards, programs, and more are carefully designed and written by the White House calligrapher.
Next The Working White House. For more than two centuries, the White House has been the home of American presidents. A powerful symbol of the For more than one hundred years, White House Social Secretaries have demonstrated a profound knowledge of protocol and society in Animals -- whether pampered household pets, working livestock, birds, squirrels, or strays -- have long been a major part of Thomas F.
Pendel was a White House doorman from the Abraham Lincoln administration to the turn of the 20th century I like those too! The residence staffers would do anything to make the transition easier for the incoming family. One night when Chelsea Clinton was sick, Hillary Clinton went into the eat-in kitchen that she had created on the second floor and set about making her daughter scrambled eggs.
A butler looked on warily as the First Lady searched for a frying pan. President Bill Clinton was similarly annoyed with some traditions. He had wanted to decorate it with Chelsea. President George H. Bush was too overcome with emotion to say goodbye to the staff gathered in the State Dining Room the morning of the Inauguration. It was never hot enough, and the water pressure was never at the needle-like intensity he so desperately wanted.
Sitting in the Oval Office, Johnson would call Arrington while he was in the plumbers shop, located underground between the White House and the West Wing. It's not hard to imagine Trump doing something similar. But it's not much to ask for when you are the leader of the free world, getting that small little bit of solace and creature comfort. Read More. Bannon could win the battle of the blowhards.
Sometimes the stories I heard confirmed the public reputations of these men and women who are so famous but so unknowable at the same time. Maid Ivaniz Silva spent most of her time in the family's inner sanctum on the second and third floors of the residence and told me about accidentally walking in on a naked Ronald Reagan when she went to turn down the bed and close the curtains in the Reagans' bedroom. When Silva walked into the adjoining sitting room, she found Reagan sitting stark naked and reading the newspaper.
She ran out of the room, her face bright red. When she passed him in the hallway later that night, Reagan looked at her, teasing: "Hey, who was that guy? Wolff's excerpts indicate that Trump prefers McDonald's cheeseburgers because they're precooked and therefore a less accessible target for a would-be assassin. While that may sound odd, and true or not, it resonates with stories I've heard before.
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