Easy read on a behind the scenes look at life in the Secret Service,and protecting the President.Some interesting tales,some known,others perhaps not.For instance I never knew that David Eisenhower could have played the real life lead in Dumb and Dumber.

.... IF SECRET SERVICE agents found Kennedy to be reckless, Lyndon B. Johnson was uncouth, nasty, and often drunk. Agent Taylor recalls driving Johnson, who was then vice president, with another agent from the U.S. Capitol to the White House for a four P.M. appointment with Kennedy. Johnson-code-named Volunteer-was not ready to leave until three forty-five P.M. Because of traffic along Pennsylvania Avenue, they were going to be late.

"Johnson said to jump the curb and drive on the sidewalk," Taylor says. "There were people on the sidewalk getting out of work. I told him, 'No.' He said, 'I told you to jump the curb.' He took a newspaper and hit the other agent, who was driving, on the head. He said, 'You're both fired.'"

When they arrived at the White House, Taylor told Evelyn Lincoln, Kennedy's secretary, "I've been fired."

Lincoln shook her head in exasperation. Taylor was not fired.

After becoming president on November 22, 1963, Johnson had affairs with several of his young, fetching secretaries. When his wife, Lady Bird Johnson, was away, the Secret Service would take him to the home of one secretary. He would insist that the agents depart while he spent time with her.

"We took him to the house, and then he dismissed us," Taylor says.

At one point, Lady Bird Johnson-code-named Victoria-caught him having sex on a sofa in the Oval Office with one of his secretaries. Johnson became furious at the Secret Service for not warning him.

"He said, 'You should have done something,'" recalls a supervisory Secret Service agent.

After the incident, which occurred just months after he took office, Johnson ordered the Secret Service to install a buzzer system so that agents stationed in the residence part of the White House could warn him when his wife was approaching.

"The alarm system was put in because Lady Bird had caught him screwing a secretary in the Oval Office," a former Secret Service agent says. "He got so goddamned mad. A buzzer was put in from the quarters upstairs at the elevator to the Oval Office. If we saw Lady Bird heading for the elevator or stairs, we were to ring the bell."
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