Clintons prepare for moving day
■ Gary Watters, 30-year White House
veteran,manages the president's home;he
remains loyal to the first family's comforts.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON - On Inauguration Day, in
a frenzied but carefully choreographed four
hours, Bill and Hillary Clinton and their
household goods down to toothbrushes will
be moved out of the White House.
As the inaugural parade rolls by outside, a
new presidential family will be moved in,
right up to stocking the pantry with their
favorite foods and snacks.
Standing at the intersection of coming
and going streams of furniture and crates,
watching as teams of workers empty closets
of one president’s pinstripes and fill them
with another’s, will be Gary Walters, a 30-year
White House veteran whose title of chief
usher is an inheritance from the 19th century.
The move is wrenching for all concerned
and Walters, 53, has commonsense rules,
starting with the obvious “Don’t panic!’’ and
ending with the catchall, “Be prepared for
anything!”
This year’s move is made more difficult by
the long uncertainty over the identity of the
new president
But the chief usher’s rules decree that
even in this chaotic political season the staff is
“blind to politics.” .
Emotional farewells, however, are OK -
even expected.
“Hie emotional strain cannot be exagger
ated; this staff has literally lived with the out
going family for four to eight years,” Walters
said.
By late afternoon, when the new first cou
ple walk from the inaugural reviewing stand
[>n Pennsylvania Avenue, Walters will be wait
ing at the North Portico.
He is the mainspring of the professional
staff that makes the White House a precision
instrument for the president and first lady
who live there.
Both a big-picture and a detail person,
Walters manages a historic house* that is at
once national symbol, presidential office, cer
emonial arena, family home and a museum
filled with treasures viewed by more than a
million people a year.
At a recent conference on White House
history, former presidential press secretary
Marlon Fitzwater described him this way; “if
you have to wake the president and tell him
Iraq has fired a Scud missile at Israel, you call
Gary Walters. If you want to know where they
put Gorbachev’s coat, you call Gary Walters.
And if you want to know if the president is
awake and in a bad mood, you call Gary
Walters.
“And by the way,” Fitzwater added, "he
will tell you if the president is awake, but he
won’t tell you about the president's mood.
He’s a man who keeps confidences."
Walters is just the latest keeper of presi
dential confidences in a 200-year-old tradi
tion that began when John Briesler, President
John Adams’ chief steward, arrived in the fall
of 1800 to make the cold and bamlike house a
home.
Inauguration Day is the supreme test.
“There is no more complex or demanding
time,” Walters said at the conference, spon
sored by the White House Historical
Association.
He explained that regardless of the out
come of this or any election the staff remains
loyal and committed to the comfort of the
outgoing first family until noon on
Inauguration Day.
But after that is rule is, “We will adopt the
new family’s routine, and not the other way
around.”
The move begins when the new and old
first families leave together for the Capitol,
“We need to know what they
bring with them so that when
they depart they take ...
nothing that belongs to the
government."
Gary Walters
White House chief usher
shortly before noon on Jan. 20.
Pre-positioned moving vans move up to
the South Portico. Teams of workers move fur
niture and boxes in—and out Upstairs there
are packers and unpackers. Teams of “plac
ers" position new furniture and hang clothes
in newly emptied closets.
The two aims, Walters said, are that “the
departing family be as much at home on
inaugural morning as is humanly possible”
and that "the new first family comes into a
White House which has been transformed
into their home."
That means “their clothes in the closets,
not in boxes,” he said. “Their furniture in the
place they have designated and even their
favorite foods and snacks in the pantry."
One of the most important activities of
the day, Walters said, is the preparation of an
inventory of everything the new first family
brings to the White House with them.
“We need to know what they bring with
them so that when they depart they take
everything that belongs to them and nothing
that belongs to the government," Walters said.
It all has to be done in four hours.
“I get to answer all the questions and be a
kind of traffic cop,” Walters said.
“Eight years ago this was an amazing
feat,” he said. “I had lost my voice to laryngitis
and had to write everything on a pad of
paper.”
Illinois'poet laureate dies at age 83
■Gwendolyn Brooks wrote
about the black community in
tier famous poems.
WE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CHICAGO - Gwendolyn
Srooks, who promoted an
inderstanding of black culture
iirough her candid, compas
sionate poetry and became the
irst
African-American to win a
Pulitzer Prize, has died of cancer.
She was 83.
She wrote hundreds of
joems, had more than 20 books
published, and had been Illinois'
[>oet laureate since 1968.
Her poetry delved into pover
ty, racism and drugs among
black people.
“I believe that we should all
know each other, we human car
riers of so many pleasurable dif
ferences," she said in a recent
interview. “To not know is to
doubt, to shrink from, sidestep
or destroy."
Dr. Jifimza Wright, who was
Brooks' attending physician, said
the poet died Sunday at her
home, surrounded by friends
and family members who had
been taking turns reading to her.
Her Pulitzer was awarded in
1950 for her second book of poet
ry, ‘Annie Allen.”
One of her most famous
poems is “We Real Cool," from
the 1960 collection “The Bean
Eaters.” The short poem sums up
hopelessness in eight lines: “We
real cool. We/Left school.
We/Lurk late. We/Strike straight.
We/Sing sin. We/Thin gin.
We/Jazz June. We/Die soon."
Brooks continued to write
throughout her life and had
completed her most recent vol
ume of poems late this summer,
her agent Carolyn Aguila said.
"Her activity regarding her
creative muse was very high,”
Aguila said. “She continued to
speak and read and do all sorts of
appearances.”
In 1989, Brooks received a
lifetime achievement award
from the National Endowment
for the Arts. She was named the
1994 Jefferson Lecturer by the
National Endowment for the
Humanities, the highest honor
bestowed by the federal govern
ment for work in the humanities.
Brooks was bom in Topeka,
Kan., in 1917, but grew up in
Chicago.
She began writing at 11 when
she mailed several poems to a
community newspaper in
Chicago to surprise her family.
Her early works were mostly
autobiographical, detailing the
death of Mends, her relationship
with her family and their reac
tion to war and racism.
After a number of her poems
had been published in Chicago's
black newspapers, Brooks sent
19 poems to a list of publishers.
"I said to myself, I'm going to
go straight down that list until
somebody takes these poems,”
she said.
Harper & Bros., now
HarperCollins, was at the top of
the list Its editors suggested she
needed more poems, then pub
lished the collection in 1945 in a
book called “A Street in
Bronzeville.”
“Annie Allen” followed four
years later.
Brooks often referred to her
works as her family, which also
included black people in general
“If you have one drop of
blackness blood in you—yes, of
course it comes out red — you
are mine,” she once said. “You
are a member of my family.”
But she was quick to point
that she wasn’t exclusionary, not
ing that she had the liveliest
interest in other families.
Brooks was also known as a
tireless teacher, promoter and
advocate of creative writing in
general and poetry in particular.
"She mentored literally three
generations of poets — black,
white, Hispanic, Native
American,” said longtime Mend,
poet and literature professor
Haki Madhubuti, who founded
the Gwendolyn Brooks Center
for Creative Writing and Black
Literature at Chicago State
University. “She was all over the
map sharing her gifts.”
7 believe that we
should all know each
other, we human
carriers of so many
pleasurable
differences.
Gwendolyn Brooks
Illinois’ poet laureate
She used her prestige as
Illinois’ poet laureate to inspire
young writers, establishing the
Illinois Poet Laureate Awards in
1969 to encourage elementary
and high school students to
write.
She said she found it intoxi
cating and exciting to see young
talent. She would attend poetry
slams in Chicago, where aspiring
poets would line up to read their
works, and she often financed
awards to the poet voted the best
reader by the audience.
Brooks once said of the
awards she received—including
having a bronze sculpture of her
placed in the National Portrait
Gallery — that there was only
one that meant a great deal to
hen
"In December 1967, at a
workshop called the Kumuba
Workshop in a rundown theater
in Chicago, I was given an award
for just being me, and that’s what
poetry is to me—just being me.”
Law & Order
i-resnman area ror naving
makeshift marijuana pipe
The smell of marijuana
smoke in a Selleck Quadrangle
hallway led University Police to a
drug arrest early Monday morn
ing.
A residence assistant in
Selleck 8200 called police shordy
after 2 a.m. after smelling smoke,
University Police Assistant Chief
Bill Manning said.
When an officer arrived, he
got permission to search the
room and found a plastic botde
that had been converted into a
makeshift pipe with drug
residue on it. No drugs were
found.
Police ticketed 18-year-old
UNL freshman Weston Rowe for
possession of drug parapherna
lia.
Pina colada party ends
with MIP citations in Abel
Three underage women
were cited for possessing alcohol
in Abel Residence Hall on
Saturday night after police
caught them sipping piiia
coladas.
A community service officer
reported the women, and
university roiice iouna a ou
milliliter bottle of Bacardi rum
and pina colada mix in the third
floor room at 11:30 p.m.,
Manning said.
Police ticketed UNL fresh
men Ella Washburn, 19, Jill
Johnson, 18, and Lindsay
Kohmetscher, 18, as minors in
possession of alcohol.
Noise draws police to find
54 beer cans in Abel loom
Five women were ticketed
for alcohol violations early
Saturday morning in Abel after
noise complaints summoned
police to the ninth-floor room.
A CSO was responding to
noise complaints at 12:20 a.m.
and spotted open beer cans in
the room and called an officer,
Manning said.
Police found five open beer
cans, 19 unopened and 30 empty
cans in the room.
UNL freshman Summer
Latham, 18, sophomore Sarah
McCracken, 19, freshman Lisa
Heck, 19, freshman Rebecca
Moran, 18, and freshman
Alysson Dietrich, 18, were all
ticketed for being minors in pos
session of alcohol.
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