Posted on 06/14/2015 10:40:15 AM PDT by HammerT
I was in Secret Service headquarters when they told me about former President Ronald Reagan’s biggest secret.
I write fiction for a living, but in my thrillers, I try to get the details right. So what better way to understand how a President lives for my newest thriller than by spending time with the Secret Service agents who spend so much time with him?
So there I was, on my tour of Secret Service headquarters. The agents had taken me into a small museum they have on the premises. It’s a room lined with photos of Presidents and archival exhibit cases filled with Secret Service artifacts. A newspaper with a “Kennedy Dead” headline. A replica of Lee Harvey Oswald’s rifle. The pistol used to try to kill President Gerald Ford. They even have the actual car door from the limo when Reagan was shot. [...] Then one of the agents offered this secret: When Reagan was President, he carried his own gun. I couldn’t believe it. “It’s true,” they said. A .38. Reagan used to hide it in his briefcase and take it on Air Force One.
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The downside is the author of the article just HAD to use the hackneyed line 'packing heat' sheesh..
Love this.
Love this.
I recall an interview with General Schwarzkopf during the Kuwait war. They showed his bedroom and there leaning against the wall was a double barrel shotgun.
He was protected, I assume by a ring of security but still depended on himself as the last resort. I liked it.
You’ve got to love these guys.
Yet Hinckley is still around.
I remember that well. My kinda guy!
My kind of guy! God bless him.
I regret voting for him twice! </sarc>
I was thinking he would carry a .44 Single action Peacemaker, Colt.
Obama carries a rape whistle in his purse.
That’s after he urinates on a potential attacker.
The article was written for Noo Yawkers, what do you expect? :)
Too bad he didn’t have his briefcase open when Hinckley came around.
He should have had an Mp5 in his briefcase.
I want a poster of that for my wall!
“Attention, all people shot with a 38 please get up. You aren’t really dead, you were shot with an inadequate pistol caliber.”
“Too bad he didn’t have his briefcase open when Hinckley came around.”
The time from when Hinckley fired his first shot to the time he fired his last shot (the one that ricocheted off the door and hit Reagan) all took place in less than 2 seconds. Doubtful Reagan could have gotten a shot off if even his protective detail couldn’t. But I admire the guy for being armed even when meeting with the heads of other countries, including Russia.
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