After failing to keep up with the President the Secret Service recruited a world class skier who would ski backwards in front of the President and “wave as the President tried to catch up with him.”īetty Ford did suffer from alcoholism but eventually found sobriety and in 1982 founded the Betty Ford Center, which has aided over 90,000 people with a network of treatment centers for alcohol and chemical dependency. Ford often taunted agents to keep up with him on the slopes. Betty Ford drank a lot- Truth!Īgents found President Ford, Codenamed Passkey, to be a “decent man who valued their service.” Although he was portrayed by Saturday Night Live comedian Chevy Chase to be a stumbling, bumbling buffoon, agents say Gerald Ford was quite athletic and enjoyed skiing.
Gerald Ford was a true gentlemen who treated the Secret Service with respect and dignity. As agents, it was embarrassing because we were facilitating his adultery. A former agent said, “Leaving him in an unsecured location was a breach of security. Spiro Agnew was a nice, decent man and everyone in the Secret Service was surprised about his downfall- Fiction!Īgents assigned to protect Agnew were interviewed and said that although he came across as a champion of family values the Vice President “was having affairs while in office.” A detail of Secret Service agents once clandestinely took Agnew to a room on the fourth floor of Washington’s Regis Hotel and left him there unguarded for three hours, at the request of the Vice President. Pat Nixon was quiet most of the time – Truth!Īn agent assigned to protect the Nixon’s said that the President, codenamed Searchlight, “seemed to have no relationship with his wife, Pat,” and she “was an alcoholic who tippled martinis.” When the Nixon’s were in San Clemente, Ca the family went out to play a nine hole golf game and an agent said that during the entire hour and a half game the President did not say one word to his wife and daughters. He had a horrible relationship with his family, and in a way, he was almost a recluse. Richard Nixon was a moral man but very paranoid, odd and weird. Johnson was well aware of what was going on.
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One agent assigned to protect him who was interviewed in Kessler’s book said that Johnson, codenamed Volunteer, was “uncouth, nasty and often drunk.” The agent said that after being caught by his wife having sex with a secretary in the Oval Office Johnson ordered the Secret Service to install a buzzer to warn him. Ladybird Johnson was either naive or pretended to “not know” of her husband’s many liaisons- Truth! & Fiction! Lyndon Johnson (LBJ) was another philanderer of the highest order. The charismatic leader was “a cheating, reckless husband whose aides snuck women into the White House to appease his sexual appetite.” There was no mention of Jackie Kennedy saving leftovers for the next occasion. Jacqueline Kennedy ordered the kitchen help to save all the left-over food and wine for the next White House occasion- Truth! & Fiction!Īn agent interviewed in Kessler’s book said that while assigned to guard President Kennedy agents realized that he led a double life. Let’s take a look at each one:Ĭodenamed Lancer, John Kennedy was a philanderer of the highest order. Some of the allegations in this eRumor are accurate, according to Kessler’s book and some are not. Generally, it is a policy of the Secret Service that agents not disclose the private lives of the First Family while they are occupying the Executive Mansion. Kessler also interviewed White House staff members. In it, Kessler interviews retired or former Secret Service agents who protected various U.S. This rumor appears to have been generated from excerpts of a book by Ronald Kessler called In The President’s Secret Service, which was published in 2009. The rumor reveals things that most people would not know about the character and personalities of Presidents, First Ladies and Vice Presidents who served in office since 1960’s. Presidents- Truth! & Fiction! & Unproven!Īn insider’s view from the Secret Service agents who were assigned to protect the President and their families. Secret Service Agents Perspective of U.S.
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