As the second Trump Administration moved into the nation’s capital earlier this year, many young people with deep Alabama ties earned coveted staff positions or appointments within the executive branch, but to one Alabama-turned-Washington man, the transfer of political power is a spectacle he is comfortable with watching from a distance — or, at least, from across the street.

Stewart McLaurin, President of the White House Historical Association (WHHA), heads the nonpartisan nonprofit charged with preserving the history and telling the story of the Executive Mansion, and, as he will often note, he does it without a single cent of taxpayer money.

McLaurin was raised in Birmingham and graduated from the University of Alabama in 1981 with degrees in American History and Political Science be

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