News Courtesy- TIMES OF INDIA One day in an elevator with Obama, then out of a job NYT News Service, Nov 3, 2014, 10.18AM IST ATLANTA: Kenneth Tate toiled for years as a construction worker and corrections officer, and he has no doubt that his last job working as a $42,000-a-year private security guard at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was the best he ever had. The high point was an afternoon seven weeks ago when he was assigned to accompany President Obama, who was visiting the agencys headquarters here for a briefing on the Ebola epidemic. It was not only that Mr Tates bosses had entrusted him with staying close to such an important dignitary. It was that, as an African-American born in Chicago, he was going to meet the nations first black president, a man he deeply admired. But by the time Mr Obamas visit was over, Mr Tate was on the way to losing his job. As Mr Obamas motorcade was preparing to leave the CDC, Mr Tate tried to take a picture on his cellphone as a memento. Angry Secret Service agents told him that he had gotten too close to the Beast, as the presidential limousine is known. When the agents relayed to Mr Tates bosses what had happened, they reacted angrily.
Posted on: Mon, 03 Nov 2014 14:15:16 +0000
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