The White House Usher's Office, headed by Rex Scouten, was responsible for White House Executive Residence operations. This collection includes materials pertaining to staff appointments, events, swimming pool construction, Christmas preparations, budgets and expenditures, and construction of a warehouse for storage of furnishings. Also included in the collection is material related to the production of a film on the history of the White House.
Series Description and Container List
Container List
Collection Overview
Scope and Content Note
RELATED MATERIALS (October 2015)
Additional material related to the Executive Residence are found primarily in the White House Central Files Subject File, category WH (White House), as well as FG-100 (Committee for the Preservation of the White House) and FG-180 (National Park Foundation) categories. Materials pertaining to the swimming pool specifically can be found in the John Stiles and Merrill Mueller Files.
Details
3.3 linear feet (approximately 1,925 pages)
Gerald R. Ford (accession numbers 2011-NLF-007, 2012-NLF-061, 79-NLF-4)
Access
Open. Some items may be temporarily restricted under terms of the donor's deed of gift, a copy of which is available on request, or under National Archives and Records Administration general restrictions (36 CFR 1256).
Copyright
Gerald R. Ford donated to the United States of America his copyrights in all of his unpublished writings in National Archives collections. The copyrights to materials written by other individuals or organizations are presumed to remain with them. Works prepared by U.S. Government employees as part of their official duties are in the public domain.
Processed by
Jeff Senger, October 2015
Biography
Rex Scouten
September 16, 1924 - Born: Snover, MI
ca. 1942- 45 - US Army (Europe)
1948 - B.S., Michigan State University
1948-57 - US Secret Service
1957-63 - Assistant to the Chief Usher
1963-69 - National Park Liaison to the White House
1969-86 - White House Chief Usher
1986-97 - White House Curator
February 20, 2013 - Died: Fairfax, VA