TW: Mr. Allen served 8 POTUS. His journey through time mirrors that of our nation.
From WaPo:
"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. His is a story from the back pages of history. A figure in the tiniest of print. The man in the kitchen.
He was there while America's racial history was being remade: Brown v. Board of Education, the Little Rock school crisis, the 1963 March on Washington, the cities burning, the civil rights bills, the assassinations. When he started at the White House in 1952, he couldn't even use the public restrooms when he ventured back to his native Virginia...
They'd [Mr. and Mrs. Allen] go vote together [Tuesady 11/4/08]. She'd lean on her cane with one hand, and on him with the other, while walking down to the precinct. And she'd get supper going afterward. They'd gone over their Election Day plans more than once"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/06/AR2008110603948.html?nav=emailpage
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