Michael O'Herlihy
Michael O'Herlihy (1 April 1929 – 16 June 1997) was an Irish television producer and director who directed shows like "Gunsmoke" (1955), "Maverick" (1957),  (1965), "Hawaii Five-O" (1968), "M*A*S*H" (1972) and "The A-Team" (1983).
Born in Dublin, Ireland, O'Herlihy was the younger brother of actor Dan O'Herlihy.
Michael O'Herlihy died in Dublin, on 16 June 1997 at age 68.
Lillian Rogers Parks
Lillian Rogers Parks (February 1, 1897 – November 6, 1997) was an American housemaid and seamstress in the White House.
With the journalist Frances Spatz Leighton, co-author of a number of White House memoirs, Parks published "My Thirty Years Backstairs at the White House.
" The book covers a 50-year period in the life of domestic staff in the White House.
It reports Parks' experiences as a seamstress, and those of her mother, 'Maggie' Rogers, who served as a housemaid for thirty years.
Lillian Rogers Parks was portrayed by Leslie Uggams in the 1979 miniseries Backstairs at the White House.
Many of the gifts she received (revealed in the aforementioned book) from presidents during her time there later became notable artifacts and collectibles associated with presidential history, eventually ending up in the Raleigh DeGeer Amyx Collection.
She also published "The Roosevelts: A Family in Turmoil" in 1981 in collaboration with Frances Spatz Leighton.
She was an honorary member of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority.
Richard Tubb
Richard Jay Tubb( born July 21, 1959) was the personal physician to President George W. Bush as well as being personal physician to Vice President Al Gore during the Clinton Administration.
He was a brigadier general in the United States Air Force.
His predecessor as White House Physician was Eleanor Mariano; Navy Captain Jeffrey Kuhlman succeeded him as Physician to the President.
Tubb may be the longest serving White House Physician in U.S. history.
He was assigned to the White House Medical Unit for nearly 14 years and served in three presidential administrations from 1995 until 2009.
As White House Physician, he was a Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of the White House Medical Unit, a component of the White House Military Office, that is part of the Executive Office of the President.
On January 28, 2013, Tubb was appointed a Non-Executive Director of British American Tobacco p.l.c.
Claudia L. Gordon
Claudia L. Gordon is the first Deaf Black female attorney in the United States.
She currently works in the U.S. Department of Labor ’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs.
Previously she held a position in the White House Office of Public Engagement as the Public Engagement Advisor to the Disability Community for less than a year.
She is also the first deaf person to work at the White House in an detailee capacity.
In an interview she makes a point that there was a deaf intern working in the White House before her, and that there are currently other deaf people working in less prestigious positions in the White House.
Backstairs at the White House
Backstairs at the White House is a 1979 NBC television miniseries based on the book "My Thirty Years Backstairs at the White House" by Lillian Rogers Parks (with Frances Spatz Leighton).
The series, produced by Ed Friendly Productions, is the story of behind-the-scenes workings of the White House and the relationship between the staff and the First Families.
This mini-series was nominated for 11 Emmy Awards in 31st Primetime Emmy Awards, winning for Outstanding Achievement in Make-up
(Mark Bussan, Tommy Cole and Ron Walters) and nominated for Outstanding Limited Series (
Ed Friendly, Executive Producer;
Ed Friendly, Producer; Michael O'Herlihy, Producer), Best Actress (Olivia Cole), Best Actor (Louis Gossett Jr.), Best Supporting Actress (both Eileen Heckart and Celeste Holm),
Best Supporting Actor (both Ed Flanders and Robert Vaughn), Outstanding Teleplay (Part 1) (Gwen Bagni and Paul Dubov), Outstanding Art Direction/Set Decoration (
Part 1) (
Richard Y. Haman, Art Director; Anne D. McCulley, Set Decorator), and Outstanding Achievement in Hairstyling (
Susan Germaine, Lola Kemp and Vivian McAteer).
The series was notable for its all-star cast: Leslie Uggams starred as Lillian Rogers Parks and Olivia Cole played her mother Maggie Rogers.
Other White House staffers were played by Louis Gossett, Jr., Robert Hooks, Cloris Leachman, Leslie Nielsen, and Hari Rhodes.
The first episode featured Paul Winfield as Emmett Rogers Sr.
Elizabeth Jaffray
Elizabeth Jaffray( December 26, 1860 in Ontario, Canada – May 2, 1934 in Ontario, Canada) was an American employed as a servant at the White House in the early 20th century.
Jaffray was retained as White House head housekeeper in 1909, a position then equivalent to that of a majordomo.
Recruited from an" exclusive New York employment bureau", she became the first female chief servant in White House history.
One of Jaffray's earliest, and most controversial, moves was to order the segregation of dining among White House staff.
Prior to Jaffray, Caucasian and African- American butlers and valets would dine together, while lower- ranked servants such as maids and footmen would dine separately, though also at a racially integrated table.
Jaffrey ordered that the two dining tables be arranged by race, instead of rank.
When servants rebelled against the move she threatened mass firings, gaining their ultimate obedience.
During her time at the White House she came to be regarded by employees as" a real terror".
According to Major Archibald Butt, the aide de camp to President William Howard Taft, Jaffray claimed to have" seen and felt" the ghost of a child she believed was William Wallace Lincoln on several occasions in 1912, around the fiftieth anniversary of his death.
The same year she would fret over the corpulent Taft's eating habits, prompting him to promise to go on a diet.
Jaffray used horses as a means of transport longer than anyone else at the White House, continuing to be chauffeured in a brougham for her daily shopping excursions into the mid 1920s.
Jaffray remained at the White House for 17 years and left in 1926 during the presidency of Calvin Coolidge.
Jaffray had reportedly become disgusted by Coolidge's austere spending on White House entertaining; Coolidge, in turn, referred to Jaffray by the nickname" queenie".
Grace Coolidge expressed relief at Jaffray's departure, musing that" she has come to consider herself the permanent resident and the President and his family transients".
Following her departure Jaffray wrote" Secrets of the White House".
Published by" Cosmopolitan", the book was a tell- all about her time at the executive mansion.
She was portrayed by actress Cloris Leachman in the 1979 NBC mini-series" Backstairs at the White House".
She died May 2, 1934 and is buried in an unmarked grave in Ontario, Canada.
Johanna Maska
Johanna Maska was a longstanding aide to American President Barack Obama.
Maska worked as Director of Press Advance for President Obama in the White House.
Previously Maska worked for the Obama campaign from the start of the Iowa caucuses in 2007.
In her role as director of press advance, Maska crafted the image displayed around the world of President Obama by working with hosts, news organizations and various government agencies and senior staff at the White House.
She left the White House in 2015 moving from DC to LA, recruited by Austin Beutner to join the" Los Angeles Times" senior leadership team.
Maska resigned from The Times after Tribune Publishing fired Austin Beutner.
Maska grew up in Galesburg, Illinois.
She went to the University of Kansas, which she credited at a commencement address for her optimism.
Maska has spoken about families balancing it all, as she had her son while working at the White House.
She organized the President's Address to the Nation from Afghanistan seven weeks after she gave birth to her son.
She continued to travel for work with a young son, and continued working at the White House until her son was 3.
William Wallace Price
William Wallace Price (November 11, 1867 - October 24, 1931) was one of the first journalists to cover the White House on a full-time basis and the first to write a column devoted to the White House.
He was the first president of the White House Correspondents' Association.
He was responsible for the creation of the White House Press Room.
Jon Decker
Jonathan P. Decker is an American journalist and White House correspondent.
Since 1995, he has served as a member of the White House press corps, and since 2014 as the White House correspondent for Fox News Radio.
He was also previously a White House correspondent for SiriusXM's" White House Insider" program, and several other news organizations.
Maggie Rogers (White House maid)
Margaret Rogers (1874–1953) was a housemaid at the White House who served for 30 years (1909–1939), during the administrations of Presidents Taft, Wilson, Harding, Coolidge, Hoover, and part of Franklin D. Roosevelt's, eventually rising to head housemaid.
She began her service on the fourth day of the Taft administration.
Eleanor Roosevelt encouraged Rogers to write a diary about her experiences on the White House staff.
Those experiences were memorialized in the book "My Thirty Years Backstairs at the White House" written by her daughter, Lillian Rogers Parks, who also worked at the White House as a seamstress.
The story was later produced in 1979 as the NBC miniseries "Backstairs at the White House" by Ed Friendly Productions.
The role of Maggie Rogers was played by actress Olivia Cole.
Emmett Rogers, Jr., Margaret’s son, was a U.S. serviceman who was gassed in World War I and had to retire to Arizona for his health.

Question: Which country the director of film Backstairs At The White House is from?
Answer: Irish