Word: housemen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lady Bird has already introduced Pat Nixon to Hopkins' domestic counterpart, Chief Usher J. Bernard West, who presides over some 70 cooks, butlers, maids, elevator operators, electricians and carpenters. Under his overall supervision are five housemen who constantly wax and buff the floors; a full-time window cleaner who has 147 windows and eight skylights to cope with; and three flower arrangers who keep busy adorning the twelve guest rooms. After 27 years of White House ceremonies-including J.F.K.'s funeral and Lynda Bird's wedding-West says with equanimity: "We never have crises...
...maitre d'hotel, two housekeepers, four butlers, six cooks, a valet, five doormen, five housemen, a head laundress, a pantry woman, eight maids, eight engineers, four carpenters, four electricians, three plumbers, two storekeepers, a painter, ten laborers and eleven gardeners...