My 21 years in the White House
Account by Alonzo Fields of his service as head butler under 4 presidents: Hoover, Roosevelt, Truman, and Eisenhower. Fields (1900-1994) began his employment at the Wite House in 1931, and kept a journal of his meetings with the presidents and thei families; he would also meet important people like...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Coward-McCann, Inc.,
[2016]
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| Edition: | Pathfinder Book reprint edition. |
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| Summary: | Account by Alonzo Fields of his service as head butler under 4 presidents: Hoover, Roosevelt, Truman, and Eisenhower. Fields (1900-1994) began his employment at the Wite House in 1931, and kept a journal of his meetings with the presidents and thei families; he would also meet important people like Winston Churchill, Princess Elizabeth of England, Thomas Edison, John D. Rockefeller, presidential cabinet members, senators, representatives, and Supreme Court Justices. He would also witness presidential decision-making at critical times in American history - the attack on Pearl Harbor, the death of Franklin Roosevelt, the desegregation of the military, and the outbreak of hostilities in Korea. |
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| Physical Description: | 223 pages ; 21 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781951682804 1951682807 9781530072378 1530072379 |
