From 1970 to 2007, I was honored to serve seven presidents and their families, witnessing life as lived in the White House from a vantage point few have experienced, behind the scenes. 

I began my White House career as a uniformed officer of the Executive Protective Service, White House Division, a part of the U.S. Secret Service, where I served during the last years of the Presidency of Richard Nixon and the early years of the Gerald Ford Presidency. I joined the Usher's Office in 1976 and was promoted to Chief Usher in 1986 serving in that role until my retirement in 2007. 

In my nearly 40 years of service, I witnessed some of the best and worst days in American History. I was present when President Nixon resigned, when America celebrated its Bicentennial, when the Iranian hostage crisis weighed heavily on President Jimmy Carter, when a would-be assassin nearly took the life of President Ronald Reagan, when........

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