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Charlie Brotman, Mr. Washington, will be atop his makeshift perch in Lafayette Square across from the White House today, ensconced there to perform his duties as the Presidential Inaugural Parade announcer.
It is a role he has filled since the second-term swearing-in of Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1957, when the now 77-year-old Mr. Brotman claimed to be "a precocious lad of 5." There is something eternal about the Tacoma Park resident, as former understudy Fred Sternburg noted yesterday.See the full content of this document
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Eternal Brotman to Announce Parade yet Again
"I swear, you can see Charlie in the background of the Matthew Brady photo taken at Lincoln's first inauguration," said Mr. Sternburg, who spent 13 years with Mr. Brotman'...
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