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The legislation restored lifetime Secret Service protection for former presidents, first ladies, and "children of former presidents until they become 16 years of age."
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 ...
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 ...
While the children of former presidents aren’t guaranteed a detail after they turn 16, Barron currently receives protection, the Secret Service confirmed in a statement to The Independent.
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 ...
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.
"The President is obligated by law to have Secret Service protection," Chris Falkenberg, a former special agent in the United States Secret Service and founder of Insite Risk Management, told T&C ...
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 ...