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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.
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]
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.
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 ...
“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.
William J. "Big Bill" Craig (November 21, 1855 – September 3, 1902) was among the first agents of the United States Secret Service tasked with protecting a President of the United States. [1] He was also the first of only two Secret Service agents who have ever been killed in the line of duty while protecting an American president, the other ...
The Secret Service must balance the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights during protective missions. Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 10 December 2024. Assassination attempts and threats against the 44th president of the United States, Barack Obama Obama's official portrait. Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States, was involved in multiple security incidents, including several assassination threats and plots, starting ...