a Former Butler of the White house Wilson, Roosevelt Jerman, who has worked with 11 U.S. presidents, died of coronavirus. It is reported by NBC.
German was the oldest of the technical staff at the White house — he began work in 1957 as a cleaner under President Dwight Eisenhower. During the reign of President John Kennedy (1961-1963) he was promoted to Butler. According to Germana’s granddaughter, Jamila Garrett, his progress was facilitated by the wife of the then American leader Jacqueline Kennedy, with whom he maintained good relations.
American retired in 2012, under President Barack Obama. The picture of the President and his wife Michelle Obama and German was included in the memoirs of the former first lady “Becoming. My story”. As recognized by the granddaughter of former Butler, this frame helped the family understand its heritage and to cope with the loss. “I want the world to remember my grandfather as someone who was really real. “Always be yourself”. This is what he taught our family is that thrives in our family,” she said.
“He was the first person we saw this morning when we left the residence, and the last person we saw every night when we returned,” said the 43rd US President George W. Bush. Former Secretary of state Hillary Clinton wrote on Twitter that she and her husband, former President bill Clinton, was saddened to learn of the death of Germana. “He did so that the generations of the first US families to feel at home [in the White house], including ours,” she concluded.
