Word: scouten
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...James Monroe's special-order French bergere was returned to its rightful place in the Blue Room, and Gilbert Stuart portraits of John Quincy Adams and his wife replaced copies in the Red Room. "She wouldn't allow anybody to give her the credit," says White House curator Rex Scouten. She initiated Christmas candlelight tours, enjoyed by more than half a million visitors, and seasonal garden tours in April and October. She had White House police who served as guides wear jackets and slacks instead of uniforms to avoid intimidating the tourists. And everyone who thrills to the White House...
Later Rex Scouten, chief White House usher, remembers walking with Ford to his bedroom on that night, saying something about Ford's long, distinguished public career and how it might be best for him to move on and think of himself. Ford looked at Scouten with a great hurt in his eyes. "I don't believe so," he said. None of them ever...