Invitation

GUESTS

This event will be formal including a black tie attire as butlers were required to wear a tuxedo everyday on duty in the White House.

Cecil Gaines

Main character in The Butler, worked in the White House for 34 years and multiple presidents until 1986.

Gloria Gaines

Cecil's wife who was there with him through his entire journey as a butler at the wife house having to care for their two sons through some of his days with long hours.

Louis Gaines

Cecil's oldest son who grew up to become a Black Panther and be a very involved radical political individual who went to jail multiple times.

Charlie Gaines

Cecil's youngest son who grew to become a more patriotic individual and joined the military only to die in the Vietnam War.

Carter Wilson

One of Cecil's best friends who worked along side him as a butler in the White House and was very outgoing and helped to get Louis out of jail once before as well.

James Holloway

Another of Cecil's best friends who worked along side him in the White House as a butler as well and was very intelligent.

John F. Kennedy
The second President that Cecil worked under who was younger and driven to help drive racism away and promoted the Civil Rights Movement, which resulted in his assassination; respected and appreciated Cecil as well: as a friend would.

Jackie Kennedy

JFK's wife who was kind and appreciative to Cecil as well and made a statement to the rest of the country how much it affected her that he husband had been murdered.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Third President that Cecil had worked under who was from Texas and an older southern man who also endorsed the Civil Rights Movement; at the end of the film, Cecil put on an LBJ tie clip when going into the White House to meet President Obama for the first time.

Ronald Reagan
The last president Cecil worked under when he retired whom he and his wife had invited Cecil and his wife to a state dinner as guests made to seem as a more racially intended action for show in the film; Reagan's son later went on to speak up in a Hollywoodreporter.com article of how his father was portrayed as something he simply was not..

Eliana Dockterman
The author of the Time.com article I read and analyzed describing the relation to the role of Cecil Gaines in the film and Eugene Allen, the actual White House butler who the story is based on.

Lee Daniels
The film director responsible for many awards and an intriguing view that inspired this movie.

Forest Whitaker
A well known actor who played Cecil Gaines in the movie and will have an intense and thoughtful view on the film and his role as they relate to racism in our country and even Capitol.

Oprah Winfrey
A very well known woman on television as a host of her own show and the actress who played Gloria Gaines, Cecil's wife.

Eugene Allen

The real life White House butler who 'Cecil Gaines' and the film are based on.