A Butler Well Served by This Election

[XemaSab]

For more than three decades Eugene Allen worked in the White House, a black man unknown to the headlines. During some of those years, harsh segregation laws lay upon the land.

He trekked home every night, his wife, Helene, keeping him out of her kitchen.

At the White House, he worked closer to the dirty dishes than to the large desk in the Oval Office. Helene didn't care; she just beamed with pride.

President Truman called him Gene. President Ford liked to talk golf with him. He saw eight presidential administrations come and go, often working six days a week. "I never missed a day of work," Allen says.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/06/AR2008110603948.html?sid=ST2008110604101&s_pos=

[MamaDem]

1. That is such a touching story - left me in tears. Thanks for posting. nt

[kwassa]

2. Read the story all the way to the very end.

It made me cry, and I don't cry easily. Powerful.

[TahitiNut]

3. Damn! DU's software must be screwing up.

It seems to keep getting blurry these days. :cry: Makes it awful difficult to post. :cry:


What goes around, comes around ...


I was alive when THIS happened, too.
I was almost two.
Now ... I'm almost two years older than FDR was when he died.
Wow.
:cry:

[Desperadoe]

4. Read this earlier today

and it choked me up. What a story.