President Joe Biden and first lady Dr. Jill Biden planted a ceremonial elm tree Monday afternoon at the White House South Lawn in honor of Dale Haney, superintendent of the
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As the head of the Park Service's staff of more than a dozen at the White House, Haney directs a team of gardeners, maintenance workers and others in a year-round effort.
The backgrounds of America's First Families are diverse: Nancy Reagan and Lady Bird Johnson have Spanish forebears; Herbert Hoover was Swiss and Canadian; Mamie Eisenhower was part Swedish while Ike was German; Martin Van Buren and the Roosevelts were Dutch; James Garfield had a royal strain of French; Eliza Johnson's parents were immigrant Scottish sandal-makers; both Calvin Coolidge and Edith Wilson had American Indian blood she being a direct descendant of Pocahantas. Yet it is the Irish American who represents the largest majority of those who have been President or First Lady.