White House curator retiring after 40-year career: report

by Rebecca Savransky - 05/06/17 2:50 PM ET

White House curator William Allman is reportedly retiring after a more than 40-year career, CNN reported Saturday, citing two people familiar with the decision.

As curator, Allman worked with both the White House interior decorate and the Committee for the Preservation of the White House.

“It is a museum, but it’s also the White House, and so it’s a working house,” Allman told The New York Times in 2011.

“There are times when you run screaming, telling somebody, ‘You can’t put those hot television lights up against the portrait of Washington!’ You worry about someone spilling a drink on something. Sometimes somebody breaks a piece of furniture. But it’s the nature of it. It’s a place where people actually live.”

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Allman reportedly gave first lady Melania Trump a tour when she went to the White House days after her husband was elected president.

A source with knowledge of the situation said Allman had a “full career and contributed a great deal,” according to CNN.

“I hope that they (the Trumps) will give it a lot of thought and consider the history of the house,” the source said.

The news comes after a report this week that the White House fired its chief usher, Angella Reid. Reid was the first woman and second African American to have the job.

“It’s not uncommon you might have a transition of staff when a new administration comes in and it’s certainly nothing more than that,” deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said at the White House briefing on Friday.

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