20 Years in the Secret Service My Life with Five Presidents

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qualified applicants for Special Agent posi- The sarcasm missed me entirely for the By Rufus Youngblood dons, starting salary $.3,825 per year." moment. "No! General Omar Bradley, I was in the Atlanta Secret Service office that's who!" almost before I finished reading the notice He looked up then, and turning toward Excerpted from 20 Years in the Secret Within a year Youngblood was assigned the clerk at the adjoining desk, he said, Service: My Life With Five Presidents, by to the White House detail of the Secret "Say, didja hear that? Youngblood just saw Rufus W. Youngblood, being published by Service. General Omar Bradley!" He looked around SiMon and Schuster, New York, N.Y. 9' From the original five men assigned to at me. "Say, Youngblood, with your luck, 1973, by Rufus W. Youngblood. Re- the protection of Theodore Roosevelt in if you'd been around here about 80 years printed by permission. 1902, the White House detail had grown ago you mighta seen General Grant. Yes into a complex, tightly knit unit of well- sir, you sure might!" trained and highly professional men whose "General . . . Grant . ." I mumbled. job was as important as any in the world. I I was learning more than protective work. joined the Secret Service in 1951, was impressed with the place, the job, and In a nudist colony you don't stare. At least not because of any burning desire to the people. Before coming to the White not after the first 'couple of days. I be a Secret Service agent—I had only a House as a Secret Service agent I had never * * * general idea of what the Service did—but seen Harry Truman—or any other Presi- because my chosen line of endeavor had dent. It was, to me, a rarefied atmosphere While President Truman's daily walks fallen unexpectedly on hard times and I I worked in for the next few days, standing around Washington worried the Secret had a family to support. my assigned posts, learning my way Service agents in charge of his safety, Presi- Like some 12 million other Americans, I around the White House, and moving with dent Eisenhower's walks presented an- had put in my World War II time, some of the President as part of the team. other kind of problem. it as a waist gunner aboard a B-17 bomber Possibly, I was overimpressed. One We had another walking President, but named Jack the Ripper. The GI Bill saw morning, after I had been rotated to the 8- one who disdained the salutary stroll down me through Georgia Tech and I was well o-4 shift, I saw what to me was a legend- Pennsylvania Avenue for the pursuit of a on my way with my industrial engineering ary figure moving through the White golf ball over endless miles of roughs and degree. House to an early appointment with the fairways. At first glance, it would seem At least that was my plan until an unac- President. I was on my way to report in that this would be a Secret Service dream customed word—"recession"—began to and as I reached the office I stopped at come true. What better protection than to crop up in everyday conversation. The re- shift leader John Campion's desk, where have your man far from the madding cession hit the engineering profession and he was working on some papers. crowd, in the fresh air and privacy of an I began looking elsewhere for work. The "Guess who I just saw!" I said, pointing exclusive golf club, spending hour after Georgia Tech alumni placement office pro- hack toward the corridor. hour in such a healthful and harmless pur- vided me with a lead that stared: "The Without looking up he said seriously, suit. After all the only golfers you ever hear United States Secret Service is seeking "Not John Wilkes Booth, I hope." of getting killed are those who rush to the 8 The Washingoon Pan/Potomac/January 13, 1974 Illustrations by John Heinly

Ike made his decision and bailed out. for the people to move back, tool: a few But the driverless cart circled back swings. At the moment when it seemed al- sharply, and for a few tense moments a most hopeless, the pressure began to lessen strange procession moved across the lush and the cars finally inched their way into fairway—the President of the United the city. States in the lead, running for all he was * * * worth, a rogue golf cart at his heels, and half a dozen Secret Service agents tearing After the 1960 election, Younghfood along in pursuit. There was some shouted was often assigned to Vice President Lyn- discussion as to.whether the thing should don Johnson. In 1961 he accompanied shelter of the nearest oak tree in a sudden be shot, just as three agents overtook it Johnson to the then rather obscure Asian thunderstorm. and, like a dogie at a rodeo, bulldogged it country of South Vietnam. But the President is exposed to a differ- over onto its side. With the business over, the Vire Presi- ent sort of danger than the ordinary golfer. * * * dent expressed a desire to have a look When Ike stepped up to the first tee, there around. The countryside in the vicinity of would already be an agent on the green Caring for a President's safety overseas Saigon was fairly safe for travelers at that ahead, and agents flanking the fairway as sometimes presented the Secret Service time,- and so after lunch, as impromptu well as bringing up the rear. One of his with more exotic problems and one trip of motorcade wound its way out of the city. doctors always accompanied the entou- President Eisenhower's to New Dehli be- We stopped occasionally in a hamlet for rage. On a relatively strange course, there came a legend in the Secret Service. Johnson to have a few words with the peo- might be a foursome of agents playing the India had a shortage of almost every- ple through his interpreter, or alongside a hole ahead and another teeing off behind thing but people, and when Ike landed at rice paddy to observe the farmers at work. the President. Palam Airport some 12 miles outside New As we rounded a bend several miles out In effect, what appeared to be a simple Delhi, and headed toward the city in the in the country, Johnson's face suddenly golf game was in actuality a miniature mili- company of Prime Minister Nehru, the mo- brightened. There to our right was a field tary movement that began its advance on torcade along Kitchener Road found itself in which a dozen or so head of cattle were the first tee with its objective the eight- penetrating a solid mass of humanity that contentedly grazing. eenth green. Of course, there was no out- seemed to stretch as far as the eye could "Pull over!" the Vice President ordered ward evidence of this. Heavily armed see. The crowds pressing in from either the driver. We eased off onto the roadside, agents appeared to be nothing more than side of the road became a huge, writhing the vehicles behind following suit. John- fellow golfers, caddies, or a small gallery vise, with the motorcade between its jaws. son was out almost before the car stopped, that had the peculiar habit of watching ev- I learned from first-hand experience on loping off with his big Texas cattleman's erything but the golfer. later visits to India that the accepted me- gait to inspect the local stock. Stu Knight But if the efforts of the Secret Service thod of crowd control on the part of the In- and I dutifully trotted along with him, not were instrumental in keeping Ike safe dian police—whether the crowds be feeling too easy about a prolonged stop, while enjoying his hobby, the many miles friendly or not—is the liberal use of the and keeping an eye out toward the forest of walking America's finest golf courses heavy wooden clubs they carry. They beyond the field. Battles were not being were not entirely without incident. swing them with abandon and those on the fought in the area, but sniping was not un- Golf carts were just coming into vogue receiving end accept the blows in the same common. in the early '50s, and Ike often enjoyed spirit they are given. But there is little to I had never had much contact with beef driving his own cart. One warm spring af- be gained by bludgeoning a man who is in the live state. My first brief visit to the ternoon on Augusta National, Ike tooled pressing forward under the relentless pres- 1,.BJ Ranch in Texas, shortly before this his cart up to the edge of the green where sure of thousands behind him. They cram- =trip, had shown me that the Vice President his ball lay just off the putting surface. The med in against the limousine, laughing, was no stranger to the beasts, and as we moment he took his foot off the accelerator smiling, shouting greetings to Ike even as made our way toward the assembled cattle, it was apparent that something was wrong, the clubs rained down on their heads. I assumed these were the same as those in as the cart continued on under full power. At one point Nehru himself grabbed a Texas. Still, I preferred my cattle disassem- Faced with a long downhill run to a creek, club from a surprised officer and, shouting bled, preferably broken down into T-bone 9 The Vashington Posr/Powmae/ jimmy 13, 1974 steaks, lightly salted and peppered, and faces along the route are not the same, the ual—the young man• with the camera or done medium rare over charcoal. These, I worker sitting in an open window munch- the man sweltering in the sun in the trench noticed, had ceased their grazing and were ing a sandwich on his lunch break is not coat—because you have passed and he has eying the oncoming group with suspicion. the one you saw yesterday, yet there is a melted back into the throng that dissolves The next thing I noticed was that they sameness about motorcades, whether they in the wake of the motorcade. If he was the were no longer simply standing there; they , take place in New Delhi or New York, man, be may give it up altogether, or he were coming to meet us, a couple of them Dakar or Dallas—if they go according to may be at the corner of 4th and Main in the at a steady trot. plan. The Secret Service is there, in a next city when you get there, ready to try "Mr. Vice President," I said, "I don't sense, to maintain that sameness. It had again. think it's advisable for us to get too far been maintained in the other cities, but the He was there in Dallas, faceless, name- from the cars." What I was thinking was Secret Service agent on protective duty less so far, but he was there. He had a rifle that I did not want to be the first Secret lives on the brink of diaster. His job bor- powerful enough to bring down a grizzly Service agent to get hoof marks in the line ders on the impossible. bear, and he had a telescopic sight that ex- of duty. It is a job of interception. When the ea- tended its effectiveness. His training as a Lyndon Johnson was a man who knew ger young man with a camera in his hands rifleman had been the best, the U.S. Ma- when to back off, and' he knew it now. breaks from the curb toward the cars, he rine Corps, and he had constructed a sni- "Whatever you think is best, Rufus," he must be intercepted and as unobtrusively per's nest as perfect as a duckblind. He replied, and doing an about-face we as possible moved back into the crowd. must have known the odds were in his headed for the cars, trying not to break The camera might not be a camera at all; it favor; we—the Secret Service—knew it. into a dead run because of the everpresent could be a bomb or a gun. The attack he planned was the one against reporters and photographers who had When the fellow standing in the front which we were virtually defenseless at that come along with us. row half a block ahead wearing a raincoat time We had long been aware that when We reached the cars about ten feet ahead on a sunny day, pushes his hands into his we had to move the President through_ the of the cows, and as they strolled 'victori- pockets, an agent may drop almost casually streets of a city in an open car it was like ously back into their field, the Vice Presi- off one of the cars and position himself be- mounting him on the track of a shooting dent suggested that he had seen enough of tween that man and the one he is assigned gallery and inviting one and all to step the countryside for -this visit and we to protect. right up and take a shot. headed back into Saigon. As a Secret Service agent you are con- The man, waiting patiently behind * * * stantly on the alert for the individual who stacked cartons of schoolbooks in a dingy somehow does not fit. You scan the storeroom six floors up, saw the car bear- In November,1963, Youngblood accom- crowd, the rooftops, the doorways, the ing his quarry as it began to move down panied President Kennedy and Vice Presi- windows, ready to take whatever action the incline toward the overpass. The car, dent Johnson on the fateful trip to Texas. may be necessary should you observe some- moving straight away from him, and This motorcade through Dallas, as plan- thing that could jeopardize your mission. slightly downward, presented him with a ned, was virtually indistinguishable from You look into thousands of faces and you target that was, in effect, almost stationary three the previous day, in San Antonio, try to determine in each if he or she may be . . Houston, and Fort Worth. The streets the one who came to do more than look. The Secret Service had carried the man- through which a Presidential motorcade You seldom know whether some action on date of Presidential protection for 61 years, moves may differ from city to city, the your part may have thwarted that individ- with the shadow of a failure of the first magnitude hanging over it twenty-four hours of every day. There had been some close ones, but the record of no losses had held. That record ended a few seconds after 12:30 p.m., November 22, 1963, on Elm Street in Dallas, Texas.

After President Kennedy was pro- nounced dead, Johnson was sworn in as President and his first official order was to fly the plane back to Washington. The President sat quietly for some time after the takeoff, while the plane streaked upward, leaving the mottled Texas coun- tryside far below and Dallas far behind. The closeness and discomfort that had pre- vailed on the ground disappeared now that the air-conditioning system was function- ing. "Have the radioman get Mrs. Rose Ken- nedy for me, Rufus," he said. The first attempt resulted in a poor con- nection. Radioman John Trimble rerouted the call and President Kennedy's mother was on the line. "I wish to God I could do something to help you," Johnson said, his voice thick. He seemed to want to say more, but found himself incapable of it, and he said simply, "Here's Lady Bird," and fr,tded the phone to his wife. Continued on page 17 10 The Wishingeoo Post/Potomscirenuary 13, 1974 $1serne, from page 10 wanting to take over the Serv- Streaking eastward with ice's chief responsibility. The vv-c3 nivv.A_ 1J&LAYTI-1.10F1 the aid of a strong tail wind, Secret Service had shouldered night came quickly. The this awesome burden for lights of Washington blinked more than 60 years, not with- below as Air Force One made out serious incident, but its approach to Andrews, without its mission being touching down at 605, two thwarted. Now, after one vol- hours and eighteen minutes ley of gunfire by a man whose after taking off from Love reasons we would probably Field. Colonel Swindal taxied never know, the Secret Serv- to the reception area, where ice was fighting for its very , scores of newsmen and hun- existence as a protective unit, dreds of VIPs — senators, because there are no small congressmen, members of the losses in this line of work. diplomatic corps, and others— Bank robbers may roam the waited. For obvious security country, spies may abound, reasons, admittance to the wars may flare, and the agen- area was extremely tight. But cies and departments respon- the general public was not oc- sible for containing these ac- cluded from what went on, tivities are seldom if ever for when the big plane came called summarily on the car- to a halt, and the rear door pet with an attitude of "if you opened, viewers across the can't cut the mustard, we'll nation saw a yellow forklift get somebody who can." truck, in she brilliant glare of The headlines made on No- B the television lights, gently vember 22 and the days that lower the bronze casket bear- followed would be a long time ing the dead President. getting to page two. Why great rooms O'Donnell, O'Brien, Dave would anyone seek a job Powers, and two men from whose failure, regardless of deserve great walls the honor guard that had the manner in which it hap- You'll be certain that your walls have eye- awaited the arrival of the pened, would inevitably cause appealing charm when you choose one of our C plane lifted the casket off the such an upheaval? I felt then, handsome wall accessories for foyer, living or forklift and placed it in a gray and I feel now, that this ques- dining area. A. Two-piece lavabo set in white Navy ambulance. Jacqueline tion was evaluated and came and antique gold finish. 17x6x5 planter. 18x Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy, up with no enthusiastic tak- and General Godfrey McHugh ers. 10 urn, 15.99 B. Colonial Console Set, 23x9 got into the rear with the cas- This and the fait that Lyn- mirror and 9x12x6 bracket, 15.99 C. Antique ket. Agents Kellerman and don Johnson, in the main, gold finished console set, mirror 25x10, brack- Greer, who had been in the backed the Secret Service et 12x12, the set 15.99 D. Cameo antique President's car in Dallas, were largely responsible for gold plaques depicting spring and fall, pr. 5,99 along with Special Agent Paul the job remaining where it E. Colonial plaques, two 7x13 Pilgrim silhou- Landis and Rear Admiral was. The feeling seemed to ettes, 5.99 F. Antique gold finished lavabo, George Barkley, John Kenne- have been give them some 14x6 planter and 19x10 urn, 15.99 Pictures dy's physician, rode in front lumps, do some revising and and Mirrors in All Woodies Stores except as the ambulance slowly reorganizing, but let them Annapolis and The Pentagon. moved out for Bethesda Naval keep it The hot potato went Hospital, where an autopsy around the circle and came was to be performed. back to where it started. As the ambulance moved Understandably, morale away, the President glanced was not at an all-ritne high in around the stateroom, obvi- the Secret Service. Many ca- ously looking for something. reer agents in protective as- "Rufus," he said, "where's my signrnerits felt that this man- bat?" date might pass to other "Your hat, sir?" hands, and they sought trans- "It was in the car during fers to the field. The neces- the motorcade." sary !merging of the Vice Pres- "Then that's where it prob- idential detail into the White ably still is, sir," 1 said "I House derail disturbed the didn't get it." normal upward flow of pro- "Well, get the damn thing! motions. It was a Moe of un- Call back to Dallas and have certainty, and in a surpris- one of your men get it!" ingly short time it came to the His hat at a time like this? attention of the President Then the incident struck me himself. Less than two as the first indication of a re- months in office, and with the turn to normalcy. This was monumental responsibility LB], the President, giving me and work load that had been a chewing out. thrust on him, he considered the matter of sufficient impel.- ranee to deal with personally, which is exactly what he did he tragedy in Dallas, on January 6, 1964. however, carried I was just sitting down to Pr with it a subtle but supper with my wife, Peggy, strong point that was a very and the children when the To order by phone call 783-7600 anytime. Out- effective deterrent to anyone's phone rang. There was no side the Washington area call 800-424-8550 toll free. The Washington Post/Patomaelancrary 13, 1974 17 aide or secretary saying, Take their resignations, get she was well known — to the "Hold the line please for the them out of here, and get Lem policeman with instructions President " It was LBJ him- Johns back and you and Lem to have them delivered to the self, and he minced no words. handle me. (I-em had been Johnson. LANE BWANT memoran- "I've received a put on shift work when we The officer, following his BUDGET FLOOR dum that disturbs me, Rufus. got back from Dallas.) And if written orders, advised the 1'11 read you some of it. 'Mo- you don't want it, just hon- Secret Service. The package rale in the Secret Service is at estly say so and 111 get you a was picked up shortly after- an all-time low. A number of good reassignment and I'll get ward and went the way of all agents of the White House de- Hoover to send me over a cou- food gifts. This might well tail have been asking for ple of 21-year-old accountants have been the end of it except transfers. This is a great body and they'll probably do as that a few days later Mrs. Mc- of men. These men feel they good a job!" Namara asked the President if are being prevented from do- 1 winced on that one, but he had liked the cheese ing their job properly. They he finally had it off his chest. I blintzes she sent him. At this do not want favors; they just said, "We'll stick with you, point, the blintzes hit the fan. want to be accepted. We need sir." "What the hell happened to them badly, especially in cam- There was a pause. "Okay. the cheese blintzes Mrs. Mc- paign years.' And it goes on.." But I want something done Namara sent me?" the Presi- "Sir," I said, "may I ask about it, you understand? dent roared at the nearest Se- who wrote the Good night, Rufus." And he cret Service agent, who hap- memorandum?" hung up. pened to be Lem Johns. Lem "I don't think I ought to I lowered the phone and sat relayed the question through name him, but it was one of there staring at it. Peggy came channels, and it very quickly Kennedy's top people, and and stood in the kitchen door- settled on my desk. somebody in your outfit has way. "I fed the children,"she checked it out and went been bellyaching to him." said. "I didn't know how long straight to the Man with my The case in point, the Presi- you'd be so I put our plates in answer. "Sir," I told him, dent told me, was a small the oven." "about Mrs. McNamara's write-up in a national maga- I looked up. "Can you see cheese blintzes . ." I took a zine to the effect that LBJ, the teeth marks on me?" deep breath. "We just fouled while driving his own car at She shrugged and smiled. the ranch, had told a Secret "Well, for three years the Vice He couldn't argue with Service agent in the follow-up President's been chewing you that, and that was the last of car that he was going to shoot out. Now it's the President. it, except that a few internal out a tire if he did not stop fol- You've come up in the changes were made in the lowing too close. The incident world." handling of food gifts. itself was not important. It As passions intensified over was a simple example of LBJ s firmly founded as the escalation of the Vietnam being himself. The fact that a the protective proce- .war so did the frustrations of magazine found out about it A dures of the Secret some of the agents. was important. Service are, certain exceptions As Vice President, LBJ had "There's enough truth in it can be made in the light of rea- not had to face some of the to see that somebody talked," son. And, occasionally, rea- problems that befell HHH. the President went on. "You son does not prevail. The han- Because of the rankling feel- know I can't have disloyalty, dling of food that comes to ing about the Vietnam war and I can't talk in front of the White House in the form that was constantly increasing your people and have them re- of gifts has always been a rou- in the United States, Hum- peat it. I told Chief Rowley tine matter. One of the classic phrey was often beset by that, to call 'em in and take methods of assassination has hecklers when he spoke. This the resignations of anybody been the poisoning of food or special sizes 14 1/2 to 32 1/2 can be one of the most frus- who wanted out, and I'll be drink, and the surest and sim- trating experiences imagina- glad to have his or yours or plest way to prevent this from ble, and on one occasion it new-patterned knit suit anybody else's. If they don't happening is to destroy such reached a point where one of want to handle it we can get gifts. our agents did something Classic lines with a new look—our color- 1 1 99 the FBI to do it. So you get Lady Bird Johnson, one of agents are not supposed to do. flecked herringbone tweeds. Long jacket ahold of Rowley and you all the most cooperative and un- Humphrey was scheduled to hold a meeting, and if you complaining women we ever speak at a large university, with pull-through belt, patch packets ...and slim want to resign, be glad to had the privilege of serving, and hecklers were lying in pullon skirt. Colorety' rayon bonded to acetate, in accept it forthwith. If Secret occasionally found fault with wait for him. The Secret Serv- blue, brown or black. Service wants to go back to this indiscriminate destruc- ice had intelligence of this, COME IN! PHONE! OR MAIL THIS HANDY ORDER COUPON TO: counterfeiting, then I'll get tion, and when special friends but there was little that could Hoover to assign me a couple wished to send her some edi- be done about it. The hall LANE BRYANT of men to stand by my side ble gift, she would have them erupted into a near-melee only without all this damn fuss!" send it to her secretary, thus minutes after Humphrey SHOP MONDAY 10 Tit 7 PHONE 347-1500 He went on, chewing me circumventing the Secret started to speak and was 932 F St. Washington, D.C. Landover Moll Springfield Mall out for the incident itself and Service. drowned out by the hecklers, the fact that it came to his at- Even so, there remained ob- and when the dust began to Please send me the item pictured Switchboard Opens Monday al 9 A.M. tention from a third party. He vious cases that could not in- settle, the agent (who shall had a point. I don't know volve a 'security risk. One forever remain nameless) SIZE Color 2nd Color Choice how long I sat there in my bright Sunday morning, Sec- phoned me in Washington. NAME kitchen with the phone in my retary of Defense Robert Mc- "1 put my foot in the bucket hand, saying, "Yes, sir, Mr. Namara arrived alone in his tonight, Rufe," he said. "1 ADDRESS APT. NO President," every now and station wagon at the south- may have to resign from the CITY STATE ZIP CODE then, west gate of the White House. Service." Rather than go into the man- Charge 0 Check 0 Money Order 0 C.O.D. ❑ (charges Include ail fees) At last, he began to wind "What happened?" Mosier Charge down. "Get ahold of Rowley sion in his casual attire, he "I belted one of those damn Bonkorriericord Cord no and find out who the hell has handed a package of Mrs. Mc- militant hecklers. You know Expiration Dote been doing all this bellyaching Namara's cheese blintzes — a with the Add 50c on orders of $15 or under P t t3L how it's been Vice and get it straightened out. gourmet specialty for which President lately. You can't 1$ The Washington Pos-tRotottoclliutoitty 13, 1974 help but admire him for keep- Australia when I just couldn't ing his cool when they're giv- keep back the tears when I IN HARMONY WITH ing him so much hell. One of looked in the faces of Jerry THE ORIENTAL 'em was standing right in Kivett, Dick Johnsen, Jerry LUNAR front of me just below the po- McKinney, Lem Johns, and CALENDAR dium, screaming up at the Bob Heyn, and the dearest of Man while he was trying to all, Rufus Youngblood, with speak, calling him a bastard that paint streaming down and a few other things. The their faces, splattered all over next thing 1 knew there was a them, but their chins up and lot of pushing and shoving their President safe . . I re- and I had my fist down his member Bob Taylor standing throat." He gave a half- there and' letting the Cadillac 2. Mar 5 Apr 4 hearted laugh. "I think 1 run over his foot in order to broke my hand. But you protect his President from know something? I really :elt harm." good! Anyhow, there was bed- When the President says lam all over the hall by then, things like this about rour and we got the Vice President outfit, you cannot help but out.- feel proud. Still, 1 wondered 4. May 5 June 4 "Where are you now?" I months lacer if that qualifica- CREATIVITY asked him. tion as "dearest of all" had not "At the airport. I heard been something like the kiss some of the press saying one of death for me. of the ringleaders was scream- Youngblood's contact with ing that a Secret Service agent the new President and his poked him, but he wasn't a,ole staff was minimal and after 20 6. July 5 Aug 4 to tell them which one." years in the Secret Service he RESERVATION "Okay," I said. "You tell decided to retire. the Vice President what hap- My final trip out of the capi- pened, have a doctor look at tal with President Nixon took your hand, and get back here us to Georgia in January 1971. to Washington. Maybe you The occasion was the death of should take a little annual Senator Richard B. Russell, I. Sep 5 Oct 4 leave." and being a Georgian, I went CONTEMPLATION Humphrey did not condone along with the President and what had happened — he his regular Secret Service de- couldn't_ But he was under- 9. Oct 5 Novo rail to Atlanta, where Rus- [MANGE standing, and it went no far- sell's body lay in state in the ther than him. I had no choice Capitol. but to reprimand the agent. • :, In a sense, this was my 10, Nov s 4 But it was a rough year to be coming full circle with the KEcEP rivrry traveling with Hubert Hum- protective forces of the Secret phrey, and no one knew that Service. It had been almost 20 EXTRA BONUS better than Humphrey him- years ago that a green proloa- • For each individual self. tionary agent stood nervously sign you order, you After the assassination of awaiting the arrival of Vice will receive a com- Senator Robert Kennedy in President Albers Barkley at plete profile anal- 12. SanS Feb t ysis. Order 1968, legislation empowered Atlanta Airport. Now I was APPROACH'1 your signs the Secretary of the Treasury back - at the same airport today. to assign Secret Service pro- aboard Air Force One, accom- tection to all major candidates panying the fifth President 1 for the Presidency and Vice had served. Ancient Wisdom Of China Blended Presidency, Like many career men in By the time Richard Nixon the Secret Service, I had come With Contemporary Jeweler's Art. won the election — by a scant almost unscathed through all 7/10 of 1 per cent of the popu- the physical hazards built into The Twelve Oriental Birth Signs!' designed COLD TONE OR SILVER WINE ' lar vote — the Secret Service the job of protecting the Pres- from the ancien t Chinese calligraphy, are now FINISH 14" Cl 4A could tally up more than a ident. But when your work yours as magnificent pendants. Each is metic- quarter of a million man- requires you to exist within ulously crafted in either gold tone or silver tone finish, and linked to a 24" chain. 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During an award Please send roe those pendants I Save OSAVE MONEY, Order two or more Although I had served five indicated. I understand that if I an, not pendants for only 55 each. ceremony late in November, Presidents, I was identified completely satisfied, I can return the Enclosed is I _—{Check or M.0.1 he became almost maudlin, with one, and my career was nenslarilial for a full refund. but we appreciated it. • not the first in Washington to NO. SIGN COLD snAreit Nome "1 have abused you," he reach a stopping point be- said, "I have criticized you, I cause of identification with a Address have been inconsiderate of previous administration. If a' City you . . r have spent more of change of identity could have my time telling you what you been arranged by my de- State Zip did wrong than what you did nouncing anyone I had New York State Residents Add Sales Tax right. But . . I remember in served, I would not buy chat.• S. 4 19 The Wishing= Post/NW:mac/ Ternary 13, 1974