PResidents

Was out with Grace yesterday helping her to kill time at Barnes and Noble...Picked up a Newsmax magazine and was reading an interview with various Secret Service men giving their close-up impressions of different presidents from Kennedy through Obama....

A quiz, answers at bottom:

1) Who was absolutely the most obnoxious, arrogant of the lot - wouldn't allow eye-contact from the men, wouldn't speak with them, be spoken to by them, made them carry his luggage? (until they wouldn't and he left on trips luggageless a time or two)

2) Who was said to be "strong-willed,determined and very intelligent"?

3) Who was "weird"?

4)Who would the Secret Service play practical jokes on? His wife loved them all and continued to keep in touch with them.

5) Which first lady asked that they call her by her first name?

6)Who was extremely upset when a protester gave him a Hitler salute?

7) Whose Secret Service stayed in close touch with his wife's, protecting him from being "found out"?

8) Who was vile, slept with various other women almost in front of his wife?



1)Carter

2) Bush Jr.

3)Nixon

4)Bush Sr.

5)Michelle Obama

6)Reagan

7)Kennedy

8)Johnson

Another interesting anecdote...A Secret Service agent stepped into the elevator with Reagan...As the door was closing, an aide rushed to him to tell him of presidential candidate (Gary?) Hart's adultery, being splashed across the newspapers. Reagan responded, "Boys will be boys." Then in the elevator, he continued to his agent, "But boys do not become president."...

Interesting vignettes....