My Life

By Beverly R. Nichols

This is her story of how she conquered the masses and came to be involved in one of the best guarded portals of American society, Capitol Hill.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Oct 18, 2012
• ISBN: 9781477152454

Beverly R. Nichols

Beverly R. Nichols has worked in the Washington Metro area for nearly 20 year, starting as an Intern for the late Congressman Norman Sisisky in June 1990. Since that time she has worked for other politicians, corporations, associations, and etc…along with completing three degrees, and attending five universities. To date she still resides in the Washington Metro area, where she continues to study Business Administration.

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Contents

Chapter One - Working for a U.S. Congressman

Chapter Two - My Birth

Chapter Three - College

Chapter Four - The Present

Chapter Five - My Life

Chapter Six - Family Tree

Chapter Seven - Footnotes

Endnotes

Let me start off by saying the best job I ever worked at was the occasion I worked as a Lyndon Baines Johnson Intern in the office of a US Congressman on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. I remember the day I walked in the doors of the Cannon House Office Building, it was like a dream. Security for the buildings back then was much more relaxed compared to security today.¹ From the gleaming marble floor, and the large eagle on the United States seal, I felt it my destiny. I like to think, I walked a little straighter, and taller that day and I felt like I could do all things.

The representative that I interned for was the Honorable Norman Sisisky, U.S. Representative for the 4th District of the State of Virginia, representing Southampton County, Virginia, and my hometown of Courtland, Virginia.

At the time of my tenure in the congressman’s office, he ran many uncontested re-election campaigns with the aid of his staff, and he served many years in the U.S. Congress and as a Delegate in the General Assembly² for the state of Virginia before that.

Going to work for the Congressman really was an eye opener for me, because although I was a Political Science major in college, I really did not have a concern to the importance of the political party system, and the parties. Now, I knew that we employ the three party system and those parties are respectively, Republican, Democrat and Independent. As well, when I went to work for the Congressman, he was a member of the Republican Party; however I had no respect for the party outside of working with the Congressman. I also was aware of the significance of the history of the Republican Party to African Americans, but I was not raised with prejudice for government, politics or leadership. I like to think that because I was a proverbial clean slate when I came to the political office in 1990, I received an important lesson that very few people I know are privileged to witness, and very few people I know understand or appreciate as a subject. To date I continue for the most part; to hold no prejudices, preferences, and/or affiliations that color the spectrum of politics in this country. I like to think that candidates from both major parties have the interest of all people, and depending on the need of the people they are elected at a given time.

As I stated, the Congressman was a member of the Republican Party, when I initially³ interned in his office in the summer of 1990, but he changed to the Democratic Party years later bending to Washington Politics, before I returned to work as his, Staff Assistant in 2000.

During the nineteen sixties, there was a great migration for many white politicians in this country away from the Democratic Party toward the