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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.
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 ...
“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.
“That’s the excuse you give? If he were president you’d protect him better?” said U.S. Rep. Carlos Gimenez. “That’s inexcusable.”
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 ...
Congress requested Secret Service protection of U.S. presidents after the assassination of William McKinley in 1901. Protection was extended to the president's immediate family, presidents-elect ...