![]() ![]() It was the fastest Audible purchase I've made, and I don't regret it. "A story I always wanted to hear more of, and one of the narrators is Forest Whitaker!" I like his voice so much I'd listen to him reading a refrigerator repair manual. I was thrilled to find "The Butler: A Witness to History" (2013) at the top of the Audible crawl. ![]() Allen must have had interesting stories, but he was discrete and I thought they had died with him in 2010. Later, watching the inaugural on television, the camera panned to Allen, and a commentator mentioned he was there as a special guest of the President's. "A Butler Well Served by this Election" was the too brief story of Eugene Allen, a Black butler who served eight presidents, retiring during the Reagan administration. Three days later, I read a nice piece in the Washington Post by Wil Haygood. On November 4, 2008, Barack Obama was elected to his first term as President. ![]()
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