At the age of 17, Don Stinson accidentally landed a job in the White House during Watergate, the largest political scandal in American history. and events that shook America.. . .
A funny, fast-paced memoir, Downstairs at the White House is richly decorated with presidents, first ladies, celebrities .
And that was just the small stuff.
He spilled ice water on Frank Sinatra\'s sock.
He devised a shortcut that tripped countless alarms and summoned an agitated band of Secret Service agents.
Only steps away from the Oval Office, he fought with a foreign head of state for space in a restroom.
He was also a kid who did the same kind of harebrained things most teenagers do.
What he saw throughout the White House ran the gamut from the deeply profound to the wildly hilarious.
A truly insignificant member of the Nixon White House staff, he frequently loitered outside of the Oval Office to watch it unfold.
At the age of 17, Don Stinson accidentally landed a job in the White House during Watergate, the largest political scandal in American history
