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The Man at the Door

As a butler at the White House, Eugene Allen saw eight presidential administrations come and go.

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Emanuel to Be Chief of Staff
Article | President-elect Barack Obama made the first appointment of his new administration yesterday, choosing Rep. Rahm Emanuel to serve as White House chief of staff when he takes office in January.
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Seated, at Last, At History's Table
Article | Eugene Allen, who worked for more than three decades as a White House butler -- some of those years during an era of brutal segregation when he often had to use back doors despite his employer's rarefied address -- sat in the shadow of the Capitol dome yesterday and watched Barack Obama become the...

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