U.S. Navy stewards have been responsible for Presidential food service since 1880, when President Rutherford B. Hayes used the U.S.S. Despatch as the first Presidential yacht. Since the establishment of the White House Mess in 1951 under President Harry S. Truman, the Navy has assigned their best culinary specialists to provide food service at the White House.
The Navy Mess at the White House, June 25, 2009. (Official White House Photo by Lawrence Jackson)
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