White House Nannies

by Barbara Kline

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Highlights

• Among Barbara Kline's first clients were a Secretary of Defense and his wife. Their grand home in McLean, Virginia, was situated on an exclusive residential street and their neighbors were other government big shots. Kline found them an affable nanny who hailed from Minnesota. But it soon became clear that this woman was not the sharpest knife in the drawer. She seemed to constantly lose her house keys. So she made several copies and passed them out to all her friends in case she lost hers. The Secretary of Defense never found out that his own home was - defenseless!
• Mary Matalin, GOP political advisor and White House Nannies client, is in the middle of a meeting with Ariel Sharon and Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia to resolve a Middle East crisis - when her nanny calls. Matalin takes the call, worried that one of her children is sick.
  
  "Can I ask the dry cleaners to pick up my cleaning along with yours?" asks the nanny. Since she couldn't tell the difference between World War III and a dry cleaning crisis, her days with the Carville-Matalins were numbered.
• A frantic nanny calls Barbara Kline's office after she locked herself out of her high-profile employer's home in tony North Arlington, Virginia. Meanwhile, the toddler in her care was locked inside the house -- along with her employer's unlisted telephone number at the Department of Defense. But by the time Kline reached the toddler's mother, the two-year-old had crawled out of the house to freedom through the doggie door.
• An elected official and his wife were in the throes of his re-election campaign while their nanny took care of their temperamental son. He refused to eat his cereal and banana for breakfast and screamed for candy. His howling woke up his mother, who stormed barefoot into the kitchen. Nanny watched in silent shock as the candidate's wife dumped a bag of M&Ms into Junior's bowl. "Just give him the chocolate," she snarled, before turning on her heels and going back to bed.
• One wealthy Alexandria family adored their nanny from the Midwest so much, they let her live in their swanky pool house, which was featured in a Washington Post article about nannies' living arrangements. Years later, the high-profile couple realized that their enterprising nanny had been running a brothel right under their noses! After they fired her, they found out just how many of their neighbors had known all along about their nanny's profitable side business.
• A Maryland client of White House Nannies was a prominent Bush One Republican. She and her four children had been quite happy with their nanny for more than a year. When it was time to take down their Christmas tree, the nanny insisted on dragging it outside to the curb. She soon began gasping for air and clutching her chest, but when paramedics arrived to examine her, the nanny struggled to fight them off. It was soon thereafter discovered that "she" was actually a man.
• A distraught nanny called looking for a new job. She had been working for an Ivy League graduate dad who had installed Nanny Cams. But this father had more than safety on his mind - he had secretly installed video equipment in his nanny's bedroom and bathroom. The espionage was uncovered when the nanny went searching for a Winnie the Pooh tape for the kids and stumbled across a videocassette labeled with her name. Soon after she slipped it into the VCR, she brought suit against her now-former employer.