DOWNSTAIRS AT THE WHITE HOUSE

 , , 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',s sock. , , 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. ,_,