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The Secret Service is tasked with ensuring the safety of the President of the United States, the Vice President of the United States, the President-elect of the United States, the Vice President-elect of the United States, and their immediate families; former presidents, their spouses and their children under the age of 16; those in the presidential line of succession, major presidential and ...
Timothy J. McCarthy (born June 20, 1949) is an American retired police officer and special agent of the U.S. Secret Service.He is best known for defending then-president Ronald Reagan during the assassination attempt on Reagan's life on March 30, 1981, in Washington, D.C.
“I saw The Bodyguard in theaters with my Secret Service man sitting behind me,” Bush Hager — whose grandfather George H.W. Bush was president at the time — shared, prompting her co-host ...
Seven of these, Inside the White House (1995), The Season: Inside Palm Beach and America's Richest Society (1999), A Matter of Character (2004), Laura Bush (2006), In the President's Secret Service: Behind the Scenes With Agents in the Line of Fire and the Presidents They Protect (2009), The Secrets of the FBI (2011), and The First Family ...
Paul Eckloff, a retired Secret Service agent who served on details protecting three presidents during his 23-year career, said he often hears people say the president shouldn't do outdoor rallies ...
July 2017 – Secret Service agents arrested Travis Reinking for being in a "restricted area" near the White House. Secret Service reported that, "[Reinking] wanted to set up a meeting with the president." On April 22, 2018, Reinking was identified as the primary subject in the Nashville Waffle House shooting. Due to the 2017 White House arrest ...
Secret Service ends detail for George H.W. Bush after nearly 40 years of protecting the former president.
On February 7, 2001, while Bush was in the residence area of the White House, Robert W. Pickett, standing outside the perimeter fence, discharged a number of shots from a Taurus .38 Special revolver "in the general direction" of the White House. He was shot in the knee by a United States Secret Service agent and arrested.