

When Lady Bird Johnson asked her if she wished to have someone help her change out of her blood-soaked clothes, Jackie replied, "Oh, no. Johnson that took place aboard Air Force One, the same flight that transported her husband John F. In real life, Jackie insisted on wearing the suit for the swearing in of Lyndon B. In the The Butler movie, we see Cecil Gaines (Forest Whitaker) standing before Jackie Kennedy (Minka Kelly), who is still wearing the blood-stained pink Chanel suit that she was wearing when her husband was shot. Allen was promoted to maitre d', the position he held when he retired in 1986. In 1980, during the Reagan administration, Mr.

This contrasts the movie, which has Cecil starting to work as a butler immediately. He was hired in 1952 as a pantry worker and worked his way up to butler after several years. Allen worked for 34 years in the White House under eight presidents. How long did the real Cecil Gaines, Eugene Allen, work as a White House butler? The invented scene is what then prompts his wife Gloria Gaines (Oprah Winfrey) to emphatically state, "The White House call him, he didn't call the White House," in a moment of fiction. This differs from the movie, which finds Eugene Allen's onscreen counterpart, Cecil Gaines (Forest Whitaker), being contacted by the White House and offered the job after a senior White House staffer witnesses Cecil in action at a D.C. "I wasn't even looking for a job," Allen admits ( The Washington Post). Allen met with Alonzo Fields, a maitre d', who instantly liked him. After being informed by a co-worker of job openings at the White House, he applied. In 1952, the real Cecil Gaines, Eugene Allen, was working as a waiter at a Washington D.C. How did Eugene Allen land his job at the White House?
