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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 ...
When the Secret Service was established, its head was called the chief of the Secret Service. In 1965, the title was changed to the director of the Secret Service, four years into the term of James Joseph Rowley (1961–1973). [9] The longest-serving head of the Secret Service was William H. Moran, who served under five presidents from 1917 to ...
A USSS Uniformed Division police officer and a USSS Ford Crown Victoria Police Interceptor near the White House in 2012 A 2013 Ford Police Interceptor of the U.S. Secret Service Uniformed Division is pictured outside the White House in Washington, D.C., in July 2013 Secret Service Ford Taurus Secret Service Ford Police Interceptor Utility A U.S. Secret Service "counter-sniper" marksman on top ...
Joseph LaSorsa, a retired Secret Service agent who served from 1976 to 1996 and was on Reagan’s protective detail, said the post-Reagan era also saw the increased use of metal detectors for ...
In 1865, the United States Secret Service was founded as a branch of the U.S. Treasury. Originally, the Secret Service's mission was to combat the counterfeiting of U.S. currency.
The book has received reviews from publications including Booklist, Publishers Weekly, and Kirkus Reviews. [3] [4] [5]Publishers Weekly stated the book was a "comprehensive, sometimes critical and often dry history" with "all aspects of the agency's work are covered extensively: recruiting, training, intelligence gathering, the often-tense relationship between the agency and the people it ...
Ronald L. Rowe Jr. is an American law enforcement officer who is currently serving as the acting director of the United States Secret Service.Rowe was appointed to the position after former Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle resigned in 2024, amidst intense criticism of the Secret Service following the attempted assassination of Donald Trump in Pennsylvania.
Baker's exploits are mainly known through his book A History of the Secret Service which he published in 1867 after his fall from grace. [1] [2] During the early months of the Civil War, he spied for General Winfield Scott on Confederate forces in Virginia.