TEKANAN KERJA DI WHITE HOUSE

President Gerald Ford menulis; “When you come to the White House there’s no forty-hour week and they shouldn’t expect it. It has to be most twenty-four-hour-a-day job for both the President and the staff.” Al Haig, merakamkan bahawa beliau mula bertugas pada pukul tujuh pagi dan tidak akan pulang ke rumah sebelum tengah malam selama tujuh hari seminggu, selama dua tahun. Beliau juga menambah semasa beliau menjadi timbalan Penasihat Keselamatan Negara di bawah Henry Kissinger beliau terpaksa tidur kurang empat jam sehari, kata beliau;
“Because Henry used to have his ideas at night. He would call me at one, two o’clock in the morning… He didn’t sleep but four hours a night. .. And I did that for seven years.”

Further Reading
Kumar, Martha J. The White House World, Start Up, Organization, and the Pressures of Work Life. The White House 2001 Project: White House Interview Program, Report No.6. Towson University