In the President's Secret Service: Behind the Scenes with Agents in the Line of Fire and the Presidents They Protect
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Never before has a journalist penetrated the wall of secrecy that surrounds the U.S. Secret Service. After conducting exclusive interviews with more than one hundred current and former Secret Service agents, bestselling author and award-winning reporter Ronald Kessler reveals their secrets for the first time. • George W. Bush’s daughters would try to lose their agents.• Based on a psychic’s vision that a sniper would assassinate President George H. W. Bush, the Secret Service changed his motorcade route.• To make the press think he came to work early, Jimmy Carter would walk into the Oval Office at 5 a.m., then nod off to sleep.• Lyndon Johnson gave dangerous instructions to his Secret Service agents and engaged in extensive philandering at the White House. Library Journal For this book about the U.S. Secret Service, Kessler (The Terrorist Watch), a former investigative reporter for the Washington Post and Wall Street Journal, managed to get former agents to open up. Some of their shocking stories are hard to believe, but Kessler names most of his sources. Throw in some random critical evaluations of the Secret Service and Alan Sklar's (see Behind the Mike, LJ 3/1/09) laconic narration, and this almost seems like serious stuff. Library patrons will love it. [The Crown hc, published in August, was a New York Times best seller.—Ed.]—R. Kent Rasmussen, Thousand Oaks, CA
Prologue xi1 Supervise 12 Lancer 103 Volunteer 154 Threats 225 Searchlight 306 Daro 407 Passkey 498 Crown 569 Jackal 6410 Deacon 7011 Stagecoach 8012 Rawhide 8713 Rainbow 9414 Hogan's Alley 10015 "I Forgot to Duck" 10616 The Big Show 11817 Timberwolf 12918 A Psychic's Vision 13919 Eagle 14520 Cutting Corners 15121 Potus 16222 Shutting Down Magnetometers 17123 Trailblazer 18024 Living on Borrowed Time 18825 Turquoise and Twinkle 19526 Angler 20527 Renegade 21628 Grenade 22929 Padding Statistics 23630 Dereliction of Duty 244Epilogue 251Secret Service Dates 255Acknowledgments 261Index 263
