The People Behind the Curtain
Every president has a story. So does everyone who made their bed.
In Season 2, Episode 4 of Bahr’s History Hits, we dig into Kate Andersen Brower’s The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House and meet the butlers, maids, chefs, florists, engineers, and other staff members who quietly kept America’s most famous home running.
They witnessed grief, scandal, celebration, and history from only a few feet away—and for decades, their job was to say almost nothing about it.
This is presidential history from a different angle: not from behind the Resolute Desk, but from behind the…
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