White House Guard Treats Congressman As Though He Were An Uninvited Armenian

By Kleinheider Posted on December 10, 2008 at 12:08 pm

The Memphis congressman gets the high hat fro White House security:

Just as Cohen was getting warm in his hunt for the ornament in the Blue Room of the White House, where the official tree stands, he says an usher with a “very rude” tone declared, “This room is closed!”

But it didn’t look closed; there were other members of Congress milling about the room, according to Cohen and Hooley. Cohen explained to the usher that he was looking for an ornament painted for the White House Christmas tree by one of his constituents in Memphis. Hooley was doing the same. (Both lawmakers wound up finding their respective ornaments, you’ll be pleased to know.)

The usher didn’t seem to care about the ornament search as the time neared 11 p.m.

“It was like he was a bouncer and it was last call,” Cohen tells the Sleuth. The congressman says he found the usher to be “haughty, arrogant, controlling and rude.”

TITLE REFERENCE: Cohen breaks bad with Armenian activist.

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