Gaston County woman served in the West Wing under seven presidents

Gaston County woman served in the West Wing under seven presidents

DALLAS, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) – Dallas, North Carolina, may seem a world away from Washington, D.C. But at the Gaston County Museum an exhibit called “Nell Yates: Woman in the Wing” spotlights a local woman who became a White House staff fixture. “She wouldn’t say a lot to any of us about their affairs,” said Kelly Privette, Yates’s great-niece. Her Aunt Nell worked for a staggering seven presidents from 1953 to 1986. “It started with Eisenhowe…