Word: protectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There are other problems, too, more significant than personal ones. Though agents are assigned to protect, not serve the President, recalls a onetime Secret Serviceman: "You do what the man says." Occasionally, "the man" has asked a friendly agent to babysit for his child or carry his wife's packages; that, at times, can interfere with an agent's professional responsibilities. Under Richard Nixon, the Secret Service was criticized for being too accommodating and tapping the phone of F. Donald Nixon, the President's brother...
...sheer frustration inescapably built into the job that is the Secret Serviceman's greatest burden. Agents are fully prepared to do anything to protect the President?even to lay down their lives. Richard Keiser, chief of the present White House detail, bears a rough resemblance to President Ford; when asked if he thought he could ever be shot by mistake, he replied, "I hope so." Nonetheless, all agents are acutely aware that there is simply no way to ensure that a President who comes in frequent contact with his fellow Americans can be utterly free from harm...
...rest of the palace is watched over by a dozen or so city policemen. Files are kept on potential assassins and all threats are investigated, but, says one senior ministry official with a shrug, "The danger here, like everywhere, is the nut-and that we can't protect against...
...assassination attempts made against him during the Algerian war, he swept aside the question of his security with his customary biting imperiousness: "There is no point in taking special precautions when those who want to kill me are as incompetent as those who are supposed to protect...
...Buffalo and eventually to New York City, where he was directed to meet with Linda Evans, a member of the Weather Bureau, who was accused of conspiring to bomb police and military installations in four cities in 1970. Informed of his plans, the FBI decided to arrest her. To protect Grathwohl's cover, the agents also arrested him. But the Weatherpeople were still suspicious. He recalls: "They figured that Evans was informed on and that I was the only one who could have done...