The Recording Secretary

I am the Secretary of the HOA where I live. I have discovered how true it is that History is not only written by the victors, but - more truly - it is written by the Historians and the Recording Secretaries.

For the great majority - 95% or more - of the great mass and heaps of tedious details that occur: the turns of phrase, the implied emphases, the body language, is exactly what the Recording Secretary says it is.

When I was elected to the position, some friends said, "Secretary? That's a wuss job."
I reminded them that Secretary was Stalin's position.
(...and I jotted their names down...on my "list"...)