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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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As in a play, presidents, vice presidents, and presidential candidates perform on stage for the public and the media. What the nationโs 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 Presidentโs 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 nationโs 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 Bidenโs reckless behavior that jeopardizes the countryโs safety, to escorting Bill Clintonโs blond mistress at Chappaqua, to overhearing First Lady Michelle Obamaโs admonitions to the president, to witnessing President Nixonโs 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: ยท 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. ยท Secret Service agents discovered that former president Bill Clinton has a blond mistress who lives near the Clintonsโ home in Chappaqua, New York. Within minutes of Hillary Clintonโs leaving, the womanโcodenamed Energizer by agentsโshows up to be with Bill and stays every day while the likely future presidential candidate is away. ยท The Secret Service covered up the fact that President Ronald Reaganโs 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. ยท 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. ยท 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. ยท 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. ยท 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. ยท 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. ยท 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. ยท Vice President Joe Biden swims nude at the vice presidentโs residence in Washington and at his home in Delaware, offending female Secret Service agents.
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