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The Secret Service is officially ending its safeguarding of former President Carter, who the agency says has the distinction of being its longest-serving protectee. The federal law enforcement ...
When the Former Presidents Act took effect in 1958, there were two living former presidents: Herbert Hoover and Harry S. Truman. Dwight D. Eisenhower was the first president to fall under the act upon leaving office. The original act provided for lifetime Secret Service protection for former presidents. In 1994, protection was reduced to ten ...
All four living ex-presidents paid tribute to Jimmy Carter, the longest-living former commander-in-chief in U.S. history who died on Sunday. ‘A truly good man’: Trump, Obama, Bush and Clinton ...
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 ...
The passing of former President Jimmy Carter on Sunday marks the beginning of a process that will include a period of national mourning. U.S. presidents have the maudlin task of planning their own ...
Laura and I are greatly saddened by the passing of former President Gerald R. Ford. President Ford was a great American who gave many years of dedicated service to our country. On August 9, 1974, after a long career in the House of Representatives and service as Vice President, he assumed the Presidency in an hour of national turmoil and ...
Former presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush, and Bill Clinton paid tribute to Carter, as did former vice president Al Gore. [ 21 ] [ 22 ] Senator Bernie Sanders , for whom Carter voted during the 2016 Democratic Party presidential primaries , stated that "Jimmy Carter, both for what he did as president and in his later years, will be ...
By a 405-0 vote, lawmakers directed the Secret Service to apply uniform standards of protection "for determining the number of agents required to protect Presidents, Vice Presidents, and major ...