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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 ...
Former Secret Service agents say the agency is studying the attempt on former President Donald Trump's life at a rally in Pennsylvania a week ago and making changes to adjust to it.
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 ...
WASHINGTON — President Trump revoked former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s Secret Service protection this week — brushing off Iranian threats to assassinate the former top diplomat ...
The federal law enforcement agency ceased protection for Carter as of Friday, the Secret Service said. “It was an honor and a privilege to serve former President Jimmy Carter,” the Secret…
The world has vastly changed since the 1860s, and so has protection for presidents. Protective details have grown in size, responsibility and technology over more than a century of the Secret Service protecting presidents. When presidents leave the White House, they are accompanied by a phalanx of Secret Service officers and agents.
“There is no such thing as 100% security,” said Paul Eckloff, who served as a Secret Service agent for 22 years, including on details protecting Presidents George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Trump.
According to documents obtained by CBS’s “60 Minutes” through a Freedom of Information Act request with the Secret Service, the cost of protecting two former Trump national security advisers ...