Lunch with history
I just happened to have lunch today with a very nice older gentleman and his wife. My boss brought over his business card that had a picture of the White House on it.
He started working at the White House in housecleaning in 1958 making $2,900/ year.
He rose to become chief of procurement. He was in charge of the first family's personal staff. One-on-one with the first families. If they wanted it he got it.
No politics, no dirt. Just some stories. Nancy Reagan loved calf liver. The first Bush's were probably the nicest. Laura Bush didn't change a thing in the first term but went wild in the second. He said all the families were really nice but some of the deputy Chiefs of Staff weren't. I didn't pry into details. I did relate the story about Trump asking the White House chefs to try to replicate McDonald's food and he actually spit his soup back into the bowl in laughter and shook his head.
We did discuss the ants and vermin story and he verified it. 96 staff members from his role to carpenters plumbers architects chefs etc.
Retired in 2013. Eisenhower to Obama. Not sure when he moved into the position of day to day interaction with the first families.
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