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Friday, April 24, 2009 | The Anniston Star

The Berman Museum of World History and the Anniston Museum of Natural History The Working white house and white house garden exhibits

The President’s House In many ways, it’s just like your house.

A family lives here. Children romp in the yard, or bake cookies in the kitchen.

But then again, it’s not like your house.

There are 7,000 visitors to this house every week.

This is the house where the president lives.

And these are the people who keep it running.

They do not serve the president, but the presidency.

But they become part of the family, anyway.

THE WORKING WHITE HOUSE Through May 31: At the Berman Museum of World History, 840 Museum Drive, Anniston.

Hours: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. TuesdaySaturday, 1-5 p.m. Sunday.

Admission: $5 for adults, $4 for seniors and AAA, $4 for children ages 4-17.

Audio tour: A free audio tour is available; it features many of the White House workers telling stories and memories in their own voices.

Birthday party: On May 2, from 10 a.m.-2 p.m., the museum will host a White House Birthday Party family day.

Museum guides will be in costume, and cake and punch will be served.

Book Club: On May 7, at noon and 6 p.m., book lovers can discuss Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy.

Members party: A members-only progressive dinner at both museums will be held on April 30, 5:30-7:30 p.m., with food from White House cookbooks and a speech by former Secret Service agent Thomas “Lem” Johns. To become a member, contact either museum.

For more info: 237-6261 or www. bermanmuseum.org.

THE WHITE HOUSE GARDEN Through May 24: At the Anniston Museum of Natural History, 800 Museum Drive.

Hours: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. TuesdaySaturday, 1-5 p.m. Sunday.

Admission: $4.50 adults, $3.50 for children ages 4-17; discounts for seniors, AAA members and active military.

Spring Garden and Home Tour: Tour some of Calhoun County’s most beautiful private homes and gardens on the museum’s annual tour, May 15 from 9 a.m.-noon. $30 for the general public, $20 for members.

Plant Sale: The museum’s annual plant sale is May 16, 10 a.m.-1 p.m.

For more info: 237-6766 or www. annistonmuseum.org.

Bill Wilson/The Anniston Star

THE EXHIBITS Get a fascinating

glimpse of life behind the scenes at the country’s most famous home in The Working White House: 200 Years of Tradition and Memories, on exhibit at the Berman Museum of World History through May 31.

It is a 132-room mansion, the seat of presidential power — and yet it is also a home.

Developed by the White House Historical Association and the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, the exhibit features images, video and audio of the workers, the tasks they performed and the tools they used to keep the White House running for more than 200 years.

Their memories offer insight into the personal

lives of First Families through the decades.

The Berman is only the second site to host this exhibit. The museum has added a special display for children, of everyday objects that are found not just in our homes, but in the White House as well.

Across the way, at the Anniston Museum of Natural History, is a companion exhibit, The White House Garden. Developed by the White House Historical Association, the exhibit used photographs and drawings to tell about the history of the grounds around the White House, and the many memorable events that have taken place on the laws and in the gardens.

It’s the first time the two exhibits have been shown together.

TO LEARN MORE More information about both exhibits is available from the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES), at www.sites.si.edu.

Additional information for these stories came from the official White House Web site (www.whitehouse.gov), the White House Historical Association (www. whitehousehistory.org), the White House Museum (www.whitehousemuseum.org), The Truman Library (www.trumanlibrary. org), the Presidential Pet Museum (www. presidentialpetmuseum.com), Time magazine and The Philippine Reporter.

THE WHITE HOUSE BY THE NUMBERS

132

Rooms

412

3

Doors

Elevators

Levels

Windows

Household staff

Acres of grounds

Fireplaces

Full-time chefs

Bathrooms

Staircases

Full-time gardeners

6

18 35

147 28 8

95 5 8

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Presidents married in the White House (Grover Cleveland, 1886).

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Children born in the White House (Esther Cleveland, 1893).

ON THE COVER: White House South view, courtesy of the White House Historical Association

“When you first go to work at the White House, you are all eyeballs. Honestly, for the first month, your eyes are as big as teacups. You’re actually drinking in history and current events.”

— Russell Free, engineer from 1964-86

A house for one family, maintained by an army of support

By Lisa Davis Special to the Star

This is a house. It is painted white. It is not a palace. It is most definitely a house.

In many ways, it’s just like your house. A family lives here. Children romp in the yard, or bake cookies in the kitchen. There’s a flower garden, sometimes a vegetable plot. There’s a home office.

But then again, it’s not like your house. There are 7,000 visitors to this house every week. Dinners for 140. Easter requires 10,000 hard-boiled eggs. It takes five days to put up the Christmas lights. Replacing a rug becomes national news.

This is the house where the president lives.

And these are the people who keep it running.

These are the people who write the menus, arrange the flowers, refinish the floors, who do the laundry, who cook the meals, who play with the children.

These are the men who lowered the flag after John F. Kennedy died.

These are the men and women who keep the White House running. Presidents come and go every four years or so, but the army of butlers, maids, engineers, chefs, electricians, doormen, carpenters and plumbers, they stay longer. They do not serve the president, but the presidency.

But they become part of the family, anyway.

See their faces, hear their voices, learn their stories.

THE STORIES

ABOVE: 1871 State Dinner. Image courtesy of the White House Historical Association (White House Collection.)

THE CONSTRUCTION George Washington picked out the site that would become 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., and the first cornerstone was laid in 1792. But Washington never got to live in the White House.

That honor went to our second president, John Adams, and his wife, Abigail, who moved in in 1800. The house wasn’t quite finished when the First Residents moved in.

WORKERS SAND EAST ROOM FLOOR, 1955

THE RENOVATION The White House underwent a massive renovation in 1902, after Teddy Roosevelt moved in with six kids and the place was suddenly much too cramped.

He moved the offices to the west of the White House, creating what would become the West Wing.

The State Dining Room was expanded so that it could seat 140 people — instead of 40.

THE RECONSTRUCTION By 1948, after decades of poor maintenance, the White House had become structurally unsafe. Harry Truman moved across the street for three years while the White House was gutted and retrofitted.

Central A/C was also added, as was a bomb shelter in the basement.

THE RESTORATION In 1961, Jacqueline Kennedy redecorated every room in the place, restoring elegance and grandeur to the mansion by emphasizing taste, history and fine decorative arts. When it was done, she famously gave a tour of the newly redecorated White House on CBS.

WHY THE WHITE HOUSE? At various times, the White House has been called the President’s Palace, the President’s House and the Executive Mansion. It was Teddy Roosevelt who officially called it the White House in 1901.

It’s worth noting that the White House contains a Blue Room, a Green Room and a Red Room.

Floral designer Rusty Young, 1966 White House floral designer Rusty Young creates a striking arrangement in the Green Room.

WHY THE OVAL OFFICE? The Oval Office as we now know it was built by William Howard Taft in 1909, when he moved the personal presidential office to the center of the West Wing.

It is not the only oval room in the house.

Several rooms in the old White House — notably the Blue Room — are also eggshaped.

“We’re also responsible for the maintenance and upkeep of the house — which is a big chore, because it’s like any other old house.

It’s always needing repair or something done to it.”

— Nancy Mitchell, first female White House assistant usher Photos courtesy/ The White House Historical Association and the National Archives and Records Administration

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PORTRAIT: THE FREEDMAN

Paul Jennings was born a slave on James Madison’s estate in 1799, and worked in the White House as the president’s “body servant” until Madison’s death in 1836.

(Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe, Andrew Jackson, John Tyler, James Polk and Zachary Taylor were the other presidents who owned slaves and brought them to the White House.)

Jennings was purchased from Dolley Madison and sold to U.S. Sen. Daniel Webster, who freed him. After becoming a free man, Jennings went to work at the Department of the Interior.

In 1856, he published a memoir, A Colored Man’s Reminiscences of James Madison. Among other stories, he recalled the burning of the White House by the British during the War of 1812. The tables had been set for dinner when the call came to evacuate.

“All then was confusion. Mrs. Madison ordered her carriage, and passing through the dining room, caught up what silver she could crowd into her old-fashioned reticule.” The doorkeeper and the gardener rescued the portrait of George Washington and several silver urns. The butler escaped with a feather bed.

Alas, that was all that was saved. The White House was looted by rabble, and when the British came, they ate the dinner that was still sitting on the table.

Mrs. Jaffrey rates the presidents Elizabeth Jaffray, White House housekeeper from 1909-1926, worked for four administrations. In 1926, Cosmopolitan magazine talked her into dishing on her former employers. Here’s how she rated the presidents and first ladies:

PORTRAIT

THE FEATHER DUSTER MAN Jerry Smith was a fixture at the White House for more than 30 years, beloved for the stories he could tell. He started as a footman around 1870, and continued on as butler, cook and doorman.

His signature was his feather duster — a new invention back then, and a status symbol for upper-crust homes.

His obituary in a Chicago paper, in 1904, read: “He was a part of the place, not only in the picture, but in the life, for he always had a cheery word for every visitor and a quaint story of his experiences for those who cared to listen, and many prominent men were delighted to hear Jerry’s experiences.”

NORTH PORTICO, c. 1889

BEST NATURED William Howard Taft

KINDEST

Woodrow Wilson

BEST DRESSED Warren G. Harding

MOST FRUGAL Calvin Coolidge

TIDIEST Mrs. Taft

MOST MOTHERLY The first Mrs. Wilson

MOST AFFECTIONATE The second Mrs. Wilson

BEST GOWNED Mrs. Harding

OSTENSIBLY HAPPIEST Mrs. Coolidge

“Every day is wash-day at the White House.”

— Elizabeth Jaffray, housekeeper from 1909-1926 Photo by Frances Benjamin Johnston. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.

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“The busiest place in the whole Executive Mansion is the two rooms in the basement over which [chief cook] Dolly Johnson presides.”

— Boston Globe story, 1890

WHITE HOUSE CHEFS, 1971 Chefs Henry Haller and Maurice Bonté set out the cake for the White House wedding of Tricia Nixon and Edward Cox on June 12, 1971.

THE REAL ACE OF CAKES Roland Mesnier, born in France in 1944, served as head pastry chef at the White House for 25 years, from 1979 to 2004.

Mesnier once made 1,500 cookies all by himself. One holiday season, he made a half ton of fruitcake.

He prided himself on creating elaborate desserts for state dinners, personalizing his fanciful creations for each Head of State.

For a delegation from India, the dessert was shaped like a lotus flower, accompanied by a white tiger made of white chocolate.

For the Queen of England, he created a chocolate coach.

For the premier of China, a sugary junk filled with sorbet.

For visitors from Kenya, a giraffe sculpted of blown sugar, and teacups made of white chocolate decorated with safari animals.

He says he never made the same dessert twice.

Photos courtesy/ The Library of Congress

PORTRAIT: THE EXECUTIVE CHEF The president used to go out to dinner more, but because of heightened security in recent decades, most major functions now take place inside the White House.

The kitchen has five full-time chefs, and is able to serve dinner for 140, or hors d’oeuvres for 1,000.

Cristeta Comerford, a Filipino-American, is the first female executive chef at the White House. She was hired by Laura Bush, and has been retained by the Obamas. Comerford has a young daughter — something that Michelle Obama has said she appreciates.

PORTRAIT: THE SEAMSTRESS

PORTRAIT: THE BUTLER

Lillian Rogers Parks was a second-generation White House worker. Her mother worked as a maid, and Lillian served as a White House maid and seamstress. She started in 1929 and stayed until 1960.

“My mother put in 30 years, and I put in 30 years,” she said. “We had a very wonderful life there with the presidents and the changes and everything that happened. With the sadness and the gladness, we had a wonderful life.”

Parks formed a special bond with Franklin D. Roosevelt, because she also had polio. FDR let her use the family elevator.

In 1961, she published a bestselling memoir, My Thirty Years Backstairs at the White House, which was made into a miniseries.

Parks died in 1997 at the age of 100. She is featured in a scrapbook on display at the exhibit, and you can hear her retell her memories on the audio tour.

For 21 years, Alonzo Fields served as chief butler at the White House, which meant he supervised the chefs and servers and was responsible for all of the tablecloths, napkins, silverware, glassware and china.

He started at the White House in 1931, and was surprised to find segregated dining quarters. “I was a little amiss of that, because I came from New England where in the service, we would all sit down at the same table together. And I thought, well the White House of all places, this is where it should start: at the White House. Yet we all worked together. We all laughed and kidded each other and I never heard of any words that would upset anyone.”

He kept a daily journal, including his impressions of the celebrities and heads of state that he served, and later published a memoir, My 21 Years in the White House. He is featured in a scrapbook accompanying the exhibit, and on the audio tour.

WHITE HOUSE PETS The First Family has often included members of the four-legged — and other — variety. Here are some of the more notable White House pets: Thomas Jefferson: A magpie, one of four birds sent back from the Lewis and Clark expedition.

John Quincy Adams: An alligator given to him by the Marquis de Lafayette.

Abraham Lincoln: His children kept a pig, ponies, goats, a rabbit, dogs, cats and a turkey — which was sent over for a holiday feast but befriended by young Tad, resulting in the first presidential pardon of a turkey.

Benjamin Harrison: A goat named Old Whiskers, which belonged to his grandchildren.

Teddy Roosevelt: His six kids had a menagerie that included a pony named Algonquin, a macaw, sheep, cats, dogs, guinea pigs, rats, snakes, badgers and raccoons.

Calvin Coolidge: An army of dogs — most famous of which was a white collie named Rob Roy — as well as canaries, a goose, a mockingbird, a few cats, raccoons, a donkey and a bobcat.

Franklin Roosevelt: A Scottish terrier named Fala, who once donated his toys to a World War II scrap rubber drive.

John F. Kennedy: His children had dogs, cats, a canary, parakeets, ponies, hamsters and a rabbit.

Gerald Ford: A golden retriever named Liberty. After she had puppies in the White House, one was donated to a guide dog program for the blind.

Jimmy Carter: His daughter, Amy, had a dog named Grits and a Siamese cat.

Ronald Reagan: A dog named Rex. George H.W. Bush: An English springer spaniel named Millie.

Bill Clinton: A dog named Buddy and a cat named Socks.

George W. Bush: A dog named Spot (daughter of Millie), and another named Barney.

And let us not forget the newest presidential pet, Bo, the Portuguese water dog.

GROWING UP IN THE WHITE HOUSE

Sasha and Malia Obama are the youngest residents of the White House since Amy Carter. They join a long line of children who grew up in the country’s most famous house.

And it’s a great house to grow up in. You get your own swimming pool. Your own basketball court. Your own bowling alley. Your own tennis court. Your own movie theater. Margaret Truman watched The Scarlet Pimpernel 16 times.

Teddy Roosevelt’s valet, James Amos, used to umpire the Roosevelt boys’ baseball games. Usher Nelson Pierce taught Caroline Kennedy how to do somersaults.

David Eisenhower, Dwight’s grandson, got to have his eighth birthday party in the White House in 1956. Roy Rogers himself came.

1974 Kitchen Steward Frankie Blair and Susan Ford wash the Fords’ golden retriever, Liberty.

PRESIDENTIAL PRANKS Presidential kids also got to pull some presidential pranks (although we doubt that Sasha and Malia will get away with anything like this): ▶Seven-year-old Tad Lincoln used to interrupt meetings by firing a toy cannon at the door of the Cabinet Room. ▶Tad also harnessed a pair of pet goats to a kitchen chair and went for a rollicking ride through the East Room. ▶When Archie Roosevelt, son of Theodore Roosevelt, was sick in bed, his brothers tried to cheer him up by bringing his pet pony upstairs on the elevator. ▶John F. Kennedy Jr. used to hide under his father’s desk in the Oval Office, and frequently had to be fetched out before important meetings.

“It’s like a fairy tale. The people you meet — the kings, queens and movie stars — and the experiences. The first time my friends visited me, they were probably impressed, but they got used to it.”

— Susan Ford, who moved into the White House when she was a high school senior.

Photo by David Hume Kennerly. Courtesy/Gerald R. Ford Library

“My loyalty was not to any one president but rather to the presidency and to the institution that is the White House.”

— J.B. West, chief usher, 1957-69

THE ASSASSINATION OF JFK

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THE WHITE HOUSE on 9/11 Everything that goes on in the residence of the president falls under the domain of the chief usher. Whatever needs doing, the chief usher sees that it gets done.

“It doesn’t matter what your title is, you have a responsibility to the Executive Residence and to the First Family. If for some reason the chefs need somebody to peel potatoes, I might have a carpenter go peel potatoes,” said Gary Walters, chief usher from 1986-2007.

On the audio tour accompanying the exhibit, Walters remembers what it was like at the White House on 9/11. The staff was setting up for a massive picnic on the grounds when word came to evacuate.

But Walters did not go. He realized he had work to do first.

“The grounds were full of picnic tables, a stage, various serving, utility vehicles were there. And I knew in my heart, right at that minute, that the president was coming back to the White House. And I knew that the grounds had to cleared.”

And so, to clear space for the helicopter that would indeed bring the president back later that day, Walters and a handful of others moved picnic tables: 190 of them, weighing about 450 pounds each. “We spent the rest of the day in fear of our lives, to be quite honest,” said Walters.

“If you ever see the pictures of that again, you’ll notice when the president lands by helicopter, there’s picnic tables stacked five and six high around the roadway.”

And the dinner that had been planned for that evening, a barbecue for 1,300? It was served to the police, the Secret Service and the firemen.

MOVING DAY “When the old family goes out, you felt lost for just that flash. And then at 12 o’clock, when the other family comes in, you took on a new perspective. You just had to turn over; you had to forget those folks and start over.”— Lillian Rogers Parks, who worked as a White House maid and seamstress for four administrations, from the Hoovers through the Eisenhowers.

Preston Bruce served as a White House doorman from 1953-1976. He was there when John F. Kennedy’s body was brought back to the White House. It was 4 a.m., and Bruce was one of only two men on duty. He carried one of the candles that was placed with the catafalque (the platform upon which the casket sat).

The candle was lit by Mrs. Kennedy.

Later, Mrs. Kennedy presented Bruce with a necktie that the president almost wore on the day he was assassinated. He changed to a different tie, putting the original in his pocket before heading to Dallas.

Robert F. Kennedy presented Bruce with a pair of gloves he wore as a pallbearer at his brother’s funeral.

WHITE HOUSE SOUTH PORTICO The sweeping view from atop the South Portico encompasses the landscape concept of Frederick Law Olmsted Jr., drawn up in the 1930s.

Courtesy/The White House Historical Association

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