Maggie Rogers (White House maid) explained
Margaret D. Williams Rogers (1874 – July 19, 1953)[1] was an American 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.[2] She began her service on the fourth day of the Taft administration.[3]
Eleanor Roosevelt encouraged Rogers to write a diary about her experiences on the White House staff.[4] 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.[5] [6] [7] The story was later produced in 1979 as the NBC miniseries Backstairs at the White House by Ed Friendly Productions.[8] The role of Maggie Rogers was played by actress Olivia Cole.[9] [10]
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.
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- News: Deaths Elsewhere . January 13, 2020 . Tampa Tribune . Associated Press . July 23, 1953 . 2 . subscription.
- "A White House Maid Remembers a Moment of Panic". Washington, D.C.: The White House Historical Association, retrieved online August 29, 2018.
- News: Insider spent 52 years in the White House. 15 November 1997. Ottawa Citizen.
- News: She recalls many presidents, but Lillian Parks is no gossip. Woods. Sherry. 12 February 1979. The Miami News.
- Mitric, Joan McQueeney. "White House Workers Recall Their Service with Pride". Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret News, February 19, 1995.
- Clifford, Garry. "Her Tales of White House Life Head for TV, but Lillian Parks Knows How to Keep a Secret". New York, New York: People, January 29, 1979.
- News: Lillian Parks, 100, Dies; Had 'Backstairs' White House View. The New York Times. 12 November 1997. 2 May 2018. Thomas. Robert McG. Jr..
- Martin, Bob. “Skipping around the television dial.” Long Beach Independent, 13 July 1977
- “Eight Stars Set for NBC’s Series on the White House.” The Los Angeles Times, 6 April 1978
- Hanauer, Joan.“New mini-series unveils White House family life.” Hutchinson News, 29 January 1979