In the President's Secret Service

[BillB]

I stumbled onto this book on the internet this weekend.
It was published in 2009 and I missed it.
I read enough snippets of it to have an idea of some of the things in it.
The author interviewed over 100 former Secret Service agents. They filled him in on some of their experiences with presidents, vice presidents and their families. Most of them are quoted by name.

1. The Secret Service agents hated Jimmy Carter. He was the worst of the bunch- rude and downright mean to the people who served him.

2. They really liked G.H.W. Bush and Ronald Reagan and disliked LBJ and Al Gore.

3. JKF, LBJ and Spiro Agnew were big womanizers.

4. They liked Barbara Bush, Laura Bush and Lady Bird Johnson and disliked Hillary Clinton, Tipper Gore and Nancy Reagan.

Interesting stories were that Reagan frequently sent personal checks of $3,000 - $5,000 to people who wrote him sob stories.
The SS once changed G.H.W. Bush's motorcade route because a psychic told them to.

I think I'll send for it.

http://www.amazon.com/In-Presidents-Sec ... 030746136X

[Sangersteve]

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[GFB]

Basically, all the Republicans were gentlemen and men of honor. The Democrats were scum..anyone surprised?

[jellowrestling]

Basically, all the Republicans were gentlemen and men of honor. The Democrats were scum..anyone surprised?

I know the parents of a long-time SS agent on the presidential detail. That's pretty much what they said.

[bodine]

I was in a Lions Club with a retired Air Force Colonel who had been a co-pilot on details that flew the President/Vice President around.

He told a story where they were flying LBJ as VP from Austin to New York; and as they overflew a certain city; LBJ had them land, against their prepared flight plan. He had a limo waiting on the tarmac; it took him to a romantic rendevous with one of his many girlfriends. Three hours later, he came back in the limo, got back on the plane, and resumed their flight to New York.