Backstairs at the White House on NBC

This nine-hour miniseries views the lives of eight Presidents through the eyes of their staff. The story is based on a book by Lillian Rogers Parks and Frances Spatz Leighton. The star-studded production covers the administrations of William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Warren Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower.