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wnen ne Decame a part-time pantry man under Franklin I). Roosevelt. That impressive title means he was a glorified dishwasher. John washed the silver and fine china in the "pantry. He explains that table settings are never allowed in the White House kitchen where they risked being mixed in with the skillets or possibly shattered by a wreckless sweep with a French cooking knife. And so they are washed in a separate room.

John’s debut at the White House was interrupted by war. From 19411946 he served in the South Pacific as an army medic.

But with peacetime came a fulltime position at the White House, working for Harry Truman for $1,460 per year. In those days, that

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