‘A wonderful experience’: Longest-serving White House Chief Usher reflects on serving seven presidents
Gary Walters served on the White House employees for each president from Richard Nixon to George W. Bush. Walters joins NCS’s Manu Raju to debate his new guide ‘White House Memories: Recollections of the Longest Serving Chief Usher,’ the place he reflects on adorning the house for Christmas, elaborate state dinners, birthday events, even taking part in ping-pong with Jimmy Carter. ‘It’s their residence and now we have to take their lead,’ he tells Raju.