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Ficklin was White House maitre d’hotel, the culmination of a career that spanned modern history at the executive mansion.
Others may have served more years, he says, but few have served so many. That’s because the likes of J.B. West (Upstairs at the White -House) and Lillian Rogers Parks (Backstairs at the White House) were devoted to Roosevelt for a dozen years. But Ficklin’s tenure included nine different presidencies, most of them brief, but momentous. He saw the assassination of Kennedy, the resignation of Nixon, the “time of healing” under Ford who was never elected to any office higher
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