factotum
făk-tō′təm
noun
An employee or assistant who serves in a wide range of capacities.
From The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition. More at Wordni
This helps. And it is true for the most part.
That doesn’t answer my question. I wasn’t asking a for a definition of factotum. I was asking what the man meant by the statement that there hasn’t been a president since the assassination of JFK.