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September 5, 1901, the Polish-American immigrant and devoted anarchist Leon Czolgosz watches
President William McKinley deliver a moving speech to some 50,000 people at the Pan-American
Exhibition in Buffalo, New York.
Czolgosz, gun in hand, shuffles through the crowd towards the President’s podium, but
he can’t get close to make his shot.
A day later, Czolgosz can get close.
He skulks through the crowd once more, his gun wrapped in a handkerchief, and fires two
shots right into the President’s chest.
The President falls, and holding his bloodied chest, he tells his bodyguards, “Be careful
how you tell my wife.”
Czolgosz, once a child laborer in a tough Detroit steel mill, takes a beating from a
furious mob.
Several days later, McKinley dies from his injuries.
A few weeks later, three rounds of 1,800 volts of electricity stop Czolgosz’s heart beating.
The death of the President shouldn’t have happened.
He should have been better protected.
There was only one thing to do: Create a special protection service for the person in charge
of running the country.
The United States Secret Service Division wasn’t actually created after that fateful
day.
It was President Abraham Lincoln who drew up the legislation, and then guess what, he
was whacked before he could see that legislation turned into a reality.
Initially, the Secret Service was introduced to suppress counterfeiting, something that
was pervasive in the U.S.
Later, the division was tasked with investigating all manner of crimes, from bank robberies
to murder, to illegal gambling, but it was after McKinley was so easily taken out that
the Secret Service was told one of its main responsibilities was to ensure the President
of the USA was safe.
As you’ll see today, the Secret Service does a lot of things that you weren’t aware
of, some of them downright shocking, others kind of amusing.
12.
You are what you eat Some of you POTUS fans out there might have
considered sending a President some cookies you made, but it goes without saying that
any kind of food sent to the leader won’t get to him.
What you might not know is the Secret Service is very serious about the President’s food.
According to insiders, anything that is made in the White House is watched over by Secret
Service agents.
If POTUS goes out for food, he will likely not risk eating anything.
What about presidential food tasters, do they exist, because we all know in the past a lot
of royalty and leaders were rightly paranoid about their food being poisoned.
The Secret Service has always been quiet about whether the President has those guinea pigs
we call food tasters, but we know for a fact that one time President Obama refused to eat
because his food taster was not available.
Apparently, his guest, who was a senator, said she had eaten some and she was ok, but
Obama still didn’t eat.
There are other articles in the media that talk about the President’s food tasters,
men who usually work as Navy mess specialists but are watched over by the Secret Service.
In conclusion, whatever POTUS puts in his mouth will have been scrutinized by his noble
protectors.
Ok, so we just called them noble.
As you’ll see later, that’s not always the case.
11.
Poison pen letter You can actually email the President, according
to the White House website, and you can also send him a typed or handwritten letter.
But one thing you should know is you probably shouldn’t write anything threatening, otherwise,
you may find yourself on the radar of the Secret Service.
You might have sent that letter anonymously, but you ought to know that the Secret Service
has people that are masters of ink analysis.
They’ve been doing that for decades now, not only to find the authors of threatening
letters but as part of criminal investigations.
They have an ink library containing over 15,000 kinds of ink, and while you might think all
blue inks look the same, there are slight differences in hue because of the dyes used
to make them.
It’s not always just threatening words, either.
In 2014, a man was sentenced to 25 years in prison for sending a letter to the White House
addressed to President Obama.
He had dusted the letter with the deadly poison ricin.
The same thing happened again in 2018 and then in 2020.
Each time the letters were stopped at a sorting facility and you guessed it, the Secret Service
was called to investigate.
10.
When poop hits the fan There are thousands of Secret Service employees
working in many areas.
The guys who are tasked with being around the President all the time are only a small
part of the organization.
One thing they are very good at, the best at, is knowing what to do when things go very
wrong.
According to one former agent who wrote a book about his experience working in the Secret
Service, the men closest to the President have to learn something called, “10-minute
medicine.”
It goes like this.
Whenever the President is out and about, he, or she in the future, will never be further
than 10 minutes away from the nearest hospital.
There will be an agent in the hospital who has vetted the staff and will be with the
President if he should be taken there.
In the motorcade, there will be an agent holding bags of blood should the worst happen.
Ok, if that’s not surprising to you, listen to this.
9.
When the President needs to go What do you think happens when the President
has to expel his lunch and the drinks that went with it?
We know the Secret Service follows the man everywhere, but really, to the restroom, too?
It seems the answer is yes, the agents might in some cases have to be inside the restroom
when the President is dropping the kids off at the pool.
It goes without saying that the places have already been checked out and given the green
light, but most times the President will have a portable toilet with him on his travels.
In 2017, there were media stories talking about how many thousands of dollars the Secret
Service was spending on luxury portable restrooms.
We found older news articles that talked about agents following President Clinton in the
restroom, which we guess however well you’re trained is not the best of jobs, especially
when POTUS feels like he’s going to explode.
It’s the same with hospital visits.
Some U.S. Presidents you could say have been in their autumn years.
Others have hit their mid-winter years, and that usually means lots of trips to see the
doctor.
When President Raegan went to get his prostate exam, guess who was standing in the room next
to him?
You guessed it, his armed Secret Service agent.
Yep, these guys hold a lot of secrets, including how a President reacts to having a doctor’s
digit shoved into his backside.
8.
The family gets special treatment, too As it stands, the President and the Vice President
get around-the-clock security and by law, they’re not allowed to refuse it.
Their family can, but they cannot.
Even when they’re no longer in office the President and Vice President can get the same
protection, as can their kids if it's requested.
The children of Bill Clinton and George W. Bush still had Secret Service agents following
them around when they were at college.
Sometimes the treatment goes too far.
The young daughter of Jimmy Carter was followed around at school by agents, and if they didn’t
do what she wanted them to do, like take her to a friend’s house, she’d call her father
to tell them to do it.
She was also a bit of a rascal, sometimes throwing food crumbs on the floor and expecting
the agents to pick them up.
Her brother, Chip, was much worse.
He’d get drunk and bring women back to the White House.
One time he brought Willie Nelson back and they both got high on the White House roof.
“We just kept going up ‘till we got to the roof, where we leaned against the flagpole
at the top of the place and lit one up,” Chip said years later.
There’s no way they did that without the Secret Service knowing about it.
It seems the agents have to put up with a lot, but according to one former agent, there
are some things they will never do.
They are not servants, so don’t even try and ask them to carry your bag or do the dishes.
The next one should be a warning to anyone thinking about turning up at a parade and
giving POTUS a hard time.
7.
They try to shoot everything It’s rare that a Secret Service agent has
to pull out his gun when he’s around the President, but one thing some agents pull
out is a video camera of some sort.
The reason being of course is if anything crazy does happen they will have video footage
to analyze.
That’s happened a bunch of times when people have thrown things such as water balloons,
eggs, and even tomatoes.
The worst-case scenario of course is not a bit of egg on the President’s face but a
bullet in his head.
It’s a pity they didn’t have better technology back in the day to film that infamous grassy
knoll.
6.
They give the President some privacy It must get annoying sometimes having agents
follow you around everywhere, so that’s why they don’t always stay on the President’s
tail when he’s inside the White House.
Maybe that could get dangerous, but in the White House, there are weight-sensitive pressure
pads so the agents know where the President is stepping.
If he is in any trouble, there are all kinds of special ornaments the President can touch
that will raise the alarm to agents.
5.
Presidents get secret codenames When agents are talking about POTUS they often
use codenames.
For instance, President Raegan was codenamed “Rawhide” due to his acting in Western
movies.
John F. Kennedy was codenamed “Lancer”, which was related to King Arthur and the knights
of the round table.
Jimmy Carter was sometimes referred to as the “Deacon” because he was a very religious
man.
Lyndon B. Johnson got “Volunteer” and we are not sure why.
Bill Clinton got “Eagle” and his wife Hilary got “Evergreen”.
Usually, the codenames all start with the same letter.
Maybe the coolest names were for George H.W. Bush and his wife, which were “Timberwolf”
and “Tranquility.”
Maybe the Secret Service inspired the X-Men franchise.
Bush junior was named “Trailblazer” and Obama was named “Renegade.”
Maybe the most fitting name was for Richard Nixon, who was named “Searchlight.”
Donald Trump got the name, “Mogul” and his wife Melania got the rather sweet name
of “Muse.”
As Vice President, Joe Biden was named, “Celtic.”
4.
The public stresses the Secret Service out According to those who’ve worked as agents
the most stressful part of the job is when the President is meeting with the public and
doing a lot of handshaking.
That often takes place when the public stands behind a rope, and there are usually a lot
of people around.
One of the reasons agents wear sunglasses is so people can’t see their eyes.
What they are usually looking at is anyone putting their hand into a bag or looking suspicious
in general.
Now for something kind of funny.
3.
Agents have to bond with POTUS Not surprisingly, if someone is with you almost
all of the day it serves to be able to do what the President wants to do.
President Reagan famously loved riding horses, and at the time that meant his secret agents
had to ride with him.
Secret Service Agent John Barletta rode a lot of horses with Reagan over the years,
something he said he enjoyed immensely.
Other agents might have to learn different hobbies depending on what the President likes
to do in his free time.
If POTUS is a good runner, the agents that go with him better make sure they can keep
up.
Bill Clinton was good at running, and even though his agents persuaded him not to run
on public trails, Clinton refused.
One former agent wrote a book called, “Within Arm's Length: The Extraordinary Life and Career
of a Special Agent in the United States Secret Service” and he called this part of the
job a “nightmare”.
Not because Clinton was hard to keep up with, but because public spaces are dangerous places.
Many Presidents like to play golf, but that doesn’t mean agents have to play the game
with them.
It does mean they have to follow the President around the 19 holes, and without doubt, they
will do that packing a firearm.
One agent once said he hated the golf course because there is so much open space, which
as you know always creates a lot of stress for an agent.
Another agent that followed Nixon around golf courses wasn’t so much annoyed about the
risks POTUS was taking but the crappy golf Nixon played.
The agent wrote in his book, "When you saw him play golf, you were embarrassed for him.
I mean it was awful.”
Presidents can be awful in other ways, too.
2.
Not all presidents are easy to work with Lyndon Johnson was apparently bossy and liked
to shout at his agents.
One time he fired two guys because they refused to break a traffic law when driving him to
his destination.
Agents have said Johnson had extramarital love affairs that were hard to deal with.
They said he reprimanded them for not telling him that his wife was on her way to the White
House when he was making out with one of his secretaries in the Oval Office.
His wife actually caught them in the act, which forced the cheater to install an alarm
system.
As for other promiscuous rogues in the White House, you can only imagine how many secrets
agents have held over the years.
One thing is for sure, what happens in the White House stays in the White House...usually.
Men behaving badly If some presidents have had behavioral problems,
so too have some of the men tasked with protecting them.
In 2012, agents protecting Obama in Colombia got in trouble after a prostitute they’d
hired complained they hadn’t paid her enough.
Obama wasn’t a happy man and this turned into a huge scandal at the time.
The party sounded more like an orgy, involving at least 20 women and 11 agents as well as
military personnel.
At the time, Obama said, “If it turns out that some of the allegations that have been
made in the press are confirmed, then of course I'll be angry.”
He soon became angry.
It gets worse, reports stated that some of the agents were bragging to the women, saying
things like, “Hey, you know why we’re here?
We protect the leader of the free world!”
This wasn’t the best thing to do seeing as in Colombia drug cartels have used prostitutes
as spies.
It wasn’t the first nor it will be the last time that agents have gotten drunk and done
something stupid.
Maybe they can be forgiven.
It’s got to be a very stressful job.
Now you need to watch this, “The INSANE Protection Of The President of the United
States.”
or, have a look at this, “How Protected Is The British Royal Family?”