The Residence - Inside the Private World of The White House (43 page)

CHAPTER IX: GROWING UP IN THE WHITE HOUSE

Information in this chapter was based in part on conversations with Rosalynn Carter, Lynda Johnson Robb, Luci Baines Johnson, Bob Scanlan, Roland Mesnier, Wendy Elsasser, Walter Scheib, Mary Prince, James Jeffries, Michael “Rahni” Flowers, Gary Walters, Susan Ford, Barbara Bush, Steve Ford, Tony Savoy, Nelson Pierce, Bill Hamilton, Amy Zantzinger, Betty Monkman, and Betty Finney. Published material includes Nancy Mitchell interview by James Deutsch for the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., August 27, 2007; Letitia Baldrige,
A Lady, First: My Life in the Kennedy White House and the American Embassies of Paris and Rome
(New York: Viking Penguin, 2001); Victorino Matus, “Notes from a White House Kitchen,”
Weekly Standard
, March 5, 2014; Jose A. DelReal and Ed O’Keefe, “Hill Staffer Elizabeth Lauten Resigns After Remarks About Obama Daughters,”
Washington Post
, December 1, 2014; Laura Bush,
Spoken from the Heart
(New York: Scribner, 2010); Traphes Bryant,
Dog Days at the White House
(New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1975); Roland Mesnier with Christian Malard,
All the President’s Pastries: Twenty-Five Years in the White House
(Paris: Flammarion, SA, 2006); Doug Wead,
All the Presidents’ Children: Triumph and Tragedy in the Lives of America’s First Families
(New York: Atria Books, 2003); Sheila Rabb Weidenfeld,
First Lady’s Lady: With the Fords at the White House
(New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1979); Helena Andrews, “Jenna Bush Hager, Hanky-Panky, and the White House Roof,”
Washington Post
, December 4, 2014; J. B. West with Mary Lynn Kotz,
Upstairs at the White House: My Life with the First Ladies
(New York: Warner Books, 1973); Betty Monkman interview for the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., August 27, 2007; C. W. Nevius, “Just Ask Chelsea, Jenna and Barbara: Escaping the Glare of the Spotlight Isn’t Easy for Kids Whose Dads Work in the Oval Office,”
San Francisco Gate
, January 22, 2004; Rachel Swarns, “First Chores,”
New York Times
, February 22, 2009.

CHAPTER X: HEARTBREAK AND HOPE

Author drew on conversations with Laura Bush, Bill and Bea Cliber, Wendy Elsasser, Betty Finney, Christine Limerick, Roland Mesnier, Nelson Pierce, Jim Ketchum, Gary Walters, Betty Monkman, Walter Scheib, Bob Scanlan, Ivaniz Silva, Skip Allen, John Moeller, and Lynwood Westray. Published material includes Lady Bird Johnson,
A White House Diary
(New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970); Mimi Swartz, “Them’s Fightin’ Words!”
Texas Monthly
, July 2004; Letitia Baldrige,
A Lady, First: My Life in the Kennedy White House and the American Embassies of Paris and Rome
(New York: Viking Penguin, 2001); Preston Bruce,
From the Door of the White House
(New York: Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Books, a division of William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1984); Tom Wicker, “Kennedy Is Killed by Sniper as He Rides in Car in Dallas; Johnson Sworn In on Plane,”
New York Times
, November 22, 1963; Laura Bush,
Spoken from the Heart
(New York: Scribner, 2010); Wilson Jerman, interview for the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., October 2, 2007; Transcript: Richard Nixon/Frank Gannon interview, University of Georgia Special Collections Libraries, The Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection, June 10, 1983; Christopher Andersen,
Jackie After Jack
(New York: William Morrow and Company, 1998); J. B. West with Mary Lynn Kotz,
Upstairs at the White House: My Life with the First Ladies
(New York: Warner Books, 1973); interview with Luci Baines Johnson on CBS News’
Face the Nation
, November 17, 2013; the Oral Histories of Maud Shaw, Anne Lincoln, and Lawrence J. Arata can be found at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.

EPILOGUE

Interview subjects included Laura Bush, Rosalynn Carter, James Jeffries, Nelson Pierce, James Hall, Skip Allen, Reggie Love, Luci Baines Johnson, James and Valerie Ramsey, and Stephen Rochon. Published material used: Sheila Rabb Weidenfeld,
First Lady’s Lady: With the Fords at the White House
(New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1979).

PHOTO INSERT SOURCES AND CREDITS

Insert one: David Kennerly/White House, courtesy David Kennerly; Abbie Rowe/National Park Service, courtesy Margaret Arrington; Jack Rottier/National Park Service, courtesy Lynwood Westray; Robert Knudsen/White House, courtesy John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston; Harold Sellers/White House, June 7, 1963, courtesy John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston; Robert Knudsen/White House, December 6, 1963, courtesy John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston; Robert Knudsen/White House, December 19, 1963, courtesy John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston; Margaret Arrington, courtesy Margaret Arrington; official White House photograph, courtesy Lynwood Westray; Jack Kightlinger/White House, courtesy Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum; David Kennerly/White House, courtesy Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum; Bill Fitz-Patrick/White House, courtesy Jimmy Carter Presidental Library and Museum; Ricardo Thomas/White House, courtesy Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum; all four photos of President and Rosalynn Carter by Jack Kightlinger/White House, courtesy Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum.

Insert two: Susan Biddle/White House, courtesy Chris Emery; Pete Souza/White House, courtesy Ronn Payne; Pete Souza/White House, courtesy Ronald Reagan Presidential Library; official White House photograph, courtesy Linsey Little; Official White House photograph, courtesy Ronn Payne; Barbara Kinney/White House, courtesy William J. Clinton Presidential Library and Museum; Official White House photograph, courtesy Christine Limerick; Official White House photograph, courtesy Roland Mesnier; courtesy James Jeffries and George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum; Official White House photographs, photographers from top: Susan Sterner, Paul Morse, Eric Draper, courtesy George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum; AP Images/Ron Edmonds; Callie Shell/Time magazine; Official White House photograph by Samantha Appleton.

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