Eugene Allen, the Man Behind The Butler
TIME takes a look at the life of Eugene Allen, the man who inspired the upcoming film, Lee Daniels' The Butler.
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"Each time that we have a change from one president to another—the thing that I find—we change, they don’t change," Allen wrote in his personal scrapbook. "We have to find out their likes their dislikes, and do what they want. And I find many times that some of the things that were totally wrong in one administration were right in the next administration. But that didn’t bother me because the only thing I wanted to know was what they liked. As soon as we could find that out, that was the way it was done.”