Thirty-Six Years in the White House: The Doorkeeper from Lincoln to Roosevelt

Thomas F. Pendel was a White House doorman from the Abraham Lincoln administration to the turn of the 20th century. His thirty-seven years involved friendships with ten presidents, and witnessing the first family's grief at the assassinations of three presidents: Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield, and William McKinley.


Pendel's classic memoir includes the following chapters: 


I. Under President Lincoln 

II. Under President Johnson 

III. Under President Grant 

IV. Under President Hayes 

V. Under President Garfield 

VI. Under President Arthur 

VII. Under President Cleveland 

VIII. Under President Harrison 

IX. Cleveland’s Second Administration 

X. Under President McKinley