Here is a snippet of text from the introduction to Inside The White House: Eyewitness To History…

White House photo by Pete Souza

On the evening of November 30, 1974 I stood quietly in a corner of the Rose Garden holding the president’s Golden Retriever, Liberty, on a short leather leash. Only days before I had accepted the volunteer position of Presidential Dog Trainer.

In the distance I began to hear the drone of a heavy helicopter and then what sounded like one ...