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Sat 11 Nov 2008'In the kitchen, the folks have always been black'
Gene Allen poured drinks for US presidents for 35 years, watching from close up as blacks moved closer to the centre of power, writes Wil Haygoodin Washington
FOR MORE than three decades Eugene Allen worked in the White House, a black man unknown to the headlines. During some of those years, harsh segregation laws lay upon the land.
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