Inauguration parade announcer since 1957 replaced [View all]

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Source: UPI

Charlie Brotman, who has served as the announcer at every inaugural parade since 1957, has been replaced by President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration committee.

Brotman, 89, learned in an email Thursday that he won't work his 17th parade on Jan. 20 for the 45th president. The job doesn't pay anything.

"I'm disappointed," Brotman told The Washington Post. "I know I can do it. I know that I've done it many many times. They ask me every time and it's such an honor."

For 60 years, he has described the parade on Inauguration Day for 11 presidents, starting with Dwight Eisenhower's second term. He worked the first televised parade in 1949 for Harry S. Truman as one of several students from the National Academy of Broadcasting in Washington.

Read more: http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2017/01/08/Inauguration-parade-announcer-since-1957-replaced/5571483905309/

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So many things dying off with this new admin: democracy, decorum, traditions....