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    Post The Secret Life of the White House

    The Secret Life of the White House - The residence staff, many of whom have worked there for decades, balance their service of the First Family with their long-term loyalty to the house itself..

    Before Inauguration Day, the White House residence staff were already exhausted. For several weeks, many of them had worked sixteen-hour days preparing for the transition—the approximately six-hour-long window between when the Trumps would depart and the Bidens arrive. White House transitions typically demand superhuman effort, but this year’s was among the most physically demanding in recent memory. At risk of falling ill with the coronavirus, staffers worked in close quarters to transform the upstairs rooms of the White House, where the windows don’t open and are paned with thick, bulletproof glass, in accordance with the strong preference of the Secret Service.

    The full story of the residence staffers’ ecosystem is rarely told. Many of the workers have served multiple Presidents, and for that reason they call themselves lifers. Their binding ethos is discretion and loyalty to the White House itself—and, by extension, to whoever is President. They are perpetually insecure in their jobs. Although their employment continues across a transition, it is never guaranteed—they serve at the pleasure of the President. Keeping their jobs requires persuading his staff of their indispensable authority on the arcane methods necessary to operate the old and leaky structure, and of their loyalty and willingness to adapt to a First Family’s needs. They balance those requirements with another: to protect the physical White House itself, often from the people who occupy it.

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    At risk of falling ill with
    the coronavirus, staffers worked in close quarters to transform the upstairs rooms of the White House, where the windows don’t open and are paned with thick, bulletproof glass, in accordance with the strong preference of the Secret Service.


    LOLOLoLOLOL

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    Why. that looks lke Barry shining the floors!!

    And Mike Pence is setting the table??

    Awesome.

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    Its must have been an enormous job cleaning up after Trump; mountains of cheese burgher wrappers, rat dropings, and spent Depends diapers! LOL!

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    As opposed to piss and poop in the presidential bed. Plastic padding for the poor old guy wherever he sits. The stench must be overwhelming a month in.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Calypso Jones View Post
    Why. that looks lke Barry shining the floors!!

    And Mike Pence is setting the table??

    Awesome.
    I guess Barry does not just fetch coffee for Clinton & Ted Kennedy anymore.
    Floors? Does he do windows?

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