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Article: In the service of the presidency.(African Americans on the White House domestic staff; Special Issue: The Untold Story of Blacks in the White House)
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- American Visions
- Article date:
- February 1, 1995
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Coming home late one night by taxi, Armstead Barnett told the Washington, D.C., cabbie to take him home to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Suspecting that his passenger was up to some sort of prank, the driver asked suspiciously, "The White House at this time of night?"
On another occasion, Barnett created a bigger stir when he was asked to list his home address on a marriage license. I" told them I lived at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue," he recalled some years later. The license bureau clerks looked at each other in disbelief. After he left the office, someone must have called the press, because when Barnett got back to the White House, he was told that it was on the news ...