John R. Hanny is a United States chef, author, and political operative and is best known for working in the White House during the presidencies of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson as a special consultant and for serving as a visiting chef for administrations from Richard Nixon to Bill Clinton. [1]
Hanny compiled recipes from Theodore Roosevelt to Barack Obama and wrote the cookbook Secrets from the White House Kitchens (2010). [2]
Hanny is author of the political thriller Asleep at the Wheel (2002), [3] which sold 500,000 copies worldwide.