Word: bulletproof
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...first stop at the Hyatt Hotel on Union Square, he was wisked by limousine to the St. Francis Hotel, even though it was an easy one-block walk. The ride took 24 seconds. He sped past one sign: FREE PATTY HEARST, ARREST GERALD FORD! Six agents jogged beside the bulletproof car. Police with binoculars and rifles looked out over the Union Square park from atop high-rise buildings. Two crouched under a lofty FLY THE FRIENDLY SKIES OF UNITED sign...
...urging of White House officials. Shortly after Fromme had pointed her loaded pistol at Ford, the Secret Service got a call from a manufacturer of "protective clothing." He offered to show some safety products for the President. Though there has never been much enthusiasm for heavy, uncomfortable bulletproof garments among those responsible for presidential security, the Secret Service nonetheless passed them on to the White House before the President left on his New Hampshire campaign trip...
Ford had decided to take these calculated risks. Though he was not wearing a bulletproof vest in St. Louis, reporters there pressed him on the issue of his security. He declined to comment directly on any specific precautionary measures but went on to say quite forcefully that "it is important for the American people to have an opportunity to see firsthand-close up -their President. I feel you have to balance or weigh the risks as to my own personal security against what is a very important aspect of our political life in America...
...assassins. They love to get out among the people−"to press the flesh," in Lyndon Johnson's homey phrase−to show that they are just plain Americans after all (see The Presidency, page 18). No one could reach the White House while campaigning from behind a bulletproof glass. Just hours after his near escape, Gerald Ford was emphatically and calmly telling newsmen that "this incident under no circumstances will prevent me or preclude me from contacting the American people as I travel from one state to another and from one community to another...
...director (he was responsible for administration and investigation activities), Tolson handled a pistol convincingly in many of the spectacular arrests that built the FBI's G-man image in the 1930s. But mainly he was the director's loyal alter ego: he shared J. Edgar's bulletproof Cadillac, his meals, his afternoons at the race tracks, and inherited the bulk of his $551,500 estate when Hoover died...