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In the President's Secret Service: Behind the Scenes with Agents in the Line of Fire and the Presidents They Protect (1st paperback ed.). New York: Three Rivers Press. ISBN 9780307461360. Kessler, Ronald (2015). The First Family Detail: Secret Service Agents Reveal the Hidden Lives of the Presidents (1st paperback ed.). New York: Crown Forum.
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 ...
On January 10, 2013, President Barack Obama signed the Former Presidents Protection Act of 2012, reinstating lifetime Secret Service protection for his predecessor George W. Bush, himself, and all subsequent presidents. [10] Richard Nixon relinquished his Secret Service protection in 1985, the only president to do so. [11]
In 1901, after President William McKinley was assassinated, the Secret Service began protecting the president. Now, their mission is two-fold: Protecting presidents (as well as vice presidents and ...
One source said the Secret Service is doing all it can to protect Trump while also preparing for the United Nations General Assembly next week and protecting President Joe Biden, Sen. J.D. Vance ...
The White House Police Force was a security police force formed in 1922 to protect the White House and the President of the United States. It became part of the United States Secret Service in 1930. It was renamed the Executive Protective Service in 1970 and then the Uniformed Division of the Secret Service in 1977.
President Franklin Pierce was the first to have a full-time bodyguard, in 1853. It wasn't until 1901, after President William McKinley was assassinated, that Congress asked the Secret Service — originally a Treasury Department division that went after counterfeiters — to take up the charge of protecting the commander in chief.
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.