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Secret Service Agents Reveal the Hidden Lives of the Presidents
Crown Forum
August 2014
On Sale: August 5, 2014
272 pages
ISBN: 0804139210
EAN: 9780804139212
Kindle: B00J6YBOQU
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Non-Fiction Political
As in a play, presidents, vice presidents, and presidential
candidates perform on stage for the public and the media.
What the nation’s leaders are really like and what goes on
behind the scenes remains hidden. Secret Service agents have
a front row seat on their private lives and those of their
wives and children. Crammed with new, headline-making revelations, THE FIRST
FAMILY DETAIL: Secret Service Agents Reveal the Hidden Lives
of the Presidents by Ronald Kessler tells that eye-opening,
uncensored story. Since publication of his New York Times bestselling book In
the President’s Secret Service, award-winning investigative
reporter Ronald Kessler has continued to penetrate the wall
of secrecy that surrounds the U.S. Secret Service, breaking
the story that Secret Service agents who were to protect
President Obama hired prostitutes in Cartagena, Colombia and
revealing that the Secret Service allowed a third uninvited
guest to crash a White House state dinner. Now in this new book, Kessler presents far bigger and more
consequential stories about our nation’s leaders and the
agency sworn to protect them. Kessler widens his scope to
include presidential candidates and former presidents after
they leave the White House. In particular, he focuses on
first ladies and their children and their relationships with
the presidents. From observing Vice President Joe Biden’s reckless behavior
that jeopardizes the country’s safety, to escorting Bill
Clinton’s blond mistress at Chappaqua, to overhearing First
Lady Michelle Obama’s admonitions to the president, to
witnessing President Nixon’s friends bring him a nude
stripper, to seeing their own agency take risks that could
result in an assassination, Secret Service agents know a
secret world that Ronald Kessler exposes in breathtaking detail. THE FIRST FAMILY DETAIL reveals: · Vice President Joe Biden regularly orders the Secret
Service to keep his military aide with the nuclear football
a mile behind his motorcade, potentially leaving the country
unable to retaliate in the event of a nuclear attack. · Secret Service agents discovered that former
president Bill Clinton has a blond mistress who lives near
the Clintons’ home in Chappaqua, New York. Within minutes of
Hillary Clinton’s leaving, the woman—codenamed Energizer by
agents—shows up to be with Bill and stays every day while
the likely future presidential candidate is away. · The Secret Service covered up the fact that
President Ronald Reagan’s White House staff overruled the
Secret Service to let unscreened spectators get close to
Reagan as he left the Washington Hilton, allowing John W.
Hinckley Jr. to shoot the president. · Secret Service agents have been dismayed to overhear
Michelle Obama push her husband to be more aggressive in
attacking Republicans and to side with blacks in racial
controversies. · Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan diverted
agents from protecting President Obama and his family at the
White House and ordered them instead to protect his
assistant at her home and illegally retrieve confidential
law enforcement records as a favor to her. · Because Hillary Clinton is so nasty to agents, being
assigned to her protective detail is considered a form of
punishment and the worst assignment in the Secret Service. · Secret Service agents were ordered to ignore
security rules and allow the SUV carrying actor Bradley
Cooper to drive unscreened into a secure restricted area
when President Obama was about to deliver his speech at the
White House Correspondents Dinner. · Vice President Joe Biden has racked up costs to
taxpayers of a million dollars to fly to and from his home
in Delaware on Air Force Two. His office tried to cover up
the costs of the personal trips. · Because the Secret Service refused to provide enough
magnetometers at his campaign events, Mitt Romney regularly
left himself open to assassination by giving speeches to
crowds that had not been screened. · Vice President Joe Biden swims nude at the vice
president’s residence in Washington and at his home in
Delaware, offending female Secret Service agents.
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