Edmund W. Starling

Starling of the White House Edmund W. Starling

He went to the White House in 1914. American politics was to him very much what it was to other average citizens - a complex and integral part of national life, a sort of legislative marriage in which all citizens participated, and from which all derived a small or large share of security, pleasure, irritation and debt, along with a bountiful measure of humor. He went on to be the man whose Secret Service detail guarded five Presidents - Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt.