Jobs are available in all styles and sizes. 

Some folks work in gross sales, others in retail — however one place would possibly win the prize for coolest cause for going to work on daily basis. 

Meet Dale Haney — chief White Home groundskeeper. 

Haney simply celebrated 50 years of working on the White Home this October, after becoming a member of the employees in 1972 throughout Richard M. Nixon’s presidency.

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Amongst Haney’s duties: caring for the lawns, gardens, bushes, shrubs and vegetable gardens on the 18 acres of property surrounding the White Home, in keeping with the Related Press.  

President Biden speaks as he and first woman Jill Biden acknowledge Dale Haney, chief White Home groundskeeper (proper), throughout a tree-planting ceremony on the South Garden of the White Home. 
(AP Picture/Evan Vucci)

Considered one of his most fascinating duties? 

Selecting out the White Home Christmas tree every year. 

Some staffers additionally counsel he’s often called the keeper of the president’s pets — and has been seen strolling President Biden’s German shepherd. 

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White Home chief usher Gary Walters stated he remembers seeing Haney on the South Garden when the 9/11 terrorist assaults and evacuations have been going down. 

“There was Dale standing with Barney beneath one arm and Kitty cat beneath the opposite,” he informed the Related Press, referring to the pets of then-President George W. Bush and first woman Laura Bush. 

The White Home lawns are fantastically landscaped lawns with flowers, fountains and blooming bushes in foreground.
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“He needed to discover them and was searching for path on what to do with them.” 

However Haney isn’t the primary groundskeeper to place in a long time of labor on the White Home. 

His predecessor, Irv Williams, additionally labored there for 50 years — he had begun working through the Dwight D. Eisenhower administration. 

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Haney acquired his diploma in horticulture from Sandhills Faculty in Pinehurst, North Carolina — and was interning within the gardens on the Dumbarton Oaks Museum in Washington, the Related Press famous. 

Dale Haney poses for a photograph on the White Home on April 20, 1979. The White Home grounds superintendent has been a continuing by the previous 10 presidencies.
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That is when he interviewed for a place as a gardener on the Nationwide Park Service — the service that cares for the White Home grounds.

In 2008, Haney was promoted to the chief workplace of the president because the superintendent of the White Home grounds. 

“The president and the primary woman wish to particularly thank and honor White Home grounds superintendent Dale Haney.”

After years of promotions, Haney now supervises a employees of 12 gardeners, upkeep staff, electricians and plumbers, in keeping with the Related Press.

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In an interview with the White Home Historical past Quarterly this 12 months, Haney stated, “The time has passed by so quick that it actually doesn’t really feel like 50 years.”

Over time, Haney has acquired reward from many first girls for his work. 

President Biden seems to be on as first woman Jill Biden hugs Dale Haney, the chief White Home groundskeeper (proper), throughout a tree-planting ceremony on the South Garden of the White Home. 
(AP Picture/Evan Vucci)

Former first woman Melania Trump stated in an announcement to the Related Press that he had an incredible sense of element. 

“His meticulous consideration to element all the time ensures and preserves the fantastic thing about the White Home grounds for a lot of to take pleasure in,” she stated. 

Former first woman Michelle Obama stated in a letter to Haney that he introduced ardour and experience to the tough activity of caring for the White Home grounds. 

First woman Jill Biden just lately tweeted concerning the big day. 

“He has served 10 administrations,” she wrote, “caring for hundreds of flowers and acres of lawns.”

White Home press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre stated in a media assertion earlier this month that Haney is an excellent human being. 

“The president and the primary woman wish to particularly thank and honor White Home grounds superintendent Dale Haney,” she stated. 

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“Dale Haney has seen the grounds by a half-century of development and enchancment, overseeing the care of 500 bushes, 5,000 shrubs, hundreds of annual flowers, and a productive kitchen backyard and acres of lawns.”

The Related Press contributed to this report.