J.B. West, chief usher of the White House, directed the operations and maintenance of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue--and coordinated its daily life--at the request of the president and his family. He offers an absorbing and novel glimpse at America's first families, from the Roosevelts to the Kennedys and the Nixons, with anecdotes ranging from the quotidian to the tragic.
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