the african-americans who cooked for roosevelt would often be doing their thing and henrietta nesbittwould come up behind them and adjust the seasoning. whatever they were making she messed it up so the food never worked out. but i want to point out the african-americans i did find through my research and i did a lot here looking for resident staff. the main part of my research was old newspapers. a lot of companies are digitizing and if you can just figure out the terms used at that time you can find out a lot about the cooks. i found ida allen, the chief cook. the term white house executive chef does not come into existence until 1961. jacqueline kennedy created that term. the four that there called first cook, head cook, or chief cook. then there is armstead burnett who started as a pantry man, worked in the white house for a long time and then he leaves during the johnson administration to start his catering business in the washington, d.c. area. daisy who i mentioned, james carter, there was a jimmy carter in the white house before president carter. loretta deans who is assistant