26 min

Episode 1: How Steve Hess got a job in Eisenhower’s White House Quite By Accident: A Life in Washington

    • Politics

In this first episode of Quite By Accident, 25-year-old Steve Hess, fresh out of U.S. Army service in Germany, lands a job in Eisenhower’s White House. Host Katie Dunn Tenpas finds out how that happened and gets a ground-level tour of the White House in the late 1950s.
Show notes and transcript.
Listen to Quite By Accident on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you like to get podcasts.
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In this first episode of Quite By Accident, 25-year-old Steve Hess, fresh out of U.S. Army service in Germany, lands a job in Eisenhower’s White House. Host Katie Dunn Tenpas finds out how that happened and gets a ground-level tour of the White House in the late 1950s.
Show notes and transcript.
Listen to Quite By Accident on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you like to get podcasts.
Learn about other Brookings podcasts from the Brookings Podcast Network.

26 min