"e;There will be five thousand to tea..."e;"e;The President of Iceland will have breakfast at nine in his room."e;These are the sort of messages Mrs. Henrietta Nesbitt took in stride during her eleven years in the White House-one of the largest, most complicated, and most fascinating households in America. Her story is a succession of intimate anecdotes of the great and the near-great-Alexander Woollcott, Paderewski, the King and Queen of England, Jose Iturbi, Winston Churchill, and of course the Roosevelt family itself. It is also a salty and sprightly record of the world's most demanding job of housekeeping.