White House Diary

By Victoria Henrietta Kugler Nesbitt

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0007HZKIS
• Release Date: December 1948
• Publisher: Doubleday
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.

Customer Reviews

The other side of the story

I've read many accounts of the FDR-era White House. Mrs. Nesbitt is known by butlers, maids, ushers and secret service agents as the housekeeper who made ordinary to awful dinners. In her own mind, however, she was making just what the Roosevelts wanted. She did offer the insight that FDR was very interested in new dishes and generally liked offal. The fact that the Dutch monarch gave her a recipe for pork trotters was quite interesting. Loved her take on situations discussed very differently by other staff members. What fun! It's the kind of book a family matriarch would write, very correct with only kind words for the families she served.