"(Don Stinson) may be the only man in the world who can say (his) wingmen were Bob Hope and Charlton Heston!"
John Grayson and Jennifer Blume, 550 AM KTRS-St. Louis 

"This is a really cool book.... (the story of) a kid who kind of 'Forrest Gumps' his way into all kinds of interesting situations." 
​​Bradley Jay, WBZ 1030 NewsRadio-Boston
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​Amazon Bestseller in Political Humor and Young Adult Biographies!  ​

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

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