I saw Spiro Agnew come to speak when he was the veep at the courthouse lawn in Roswell, New Mexico, earlier time, everyone in town was there. Secret Service, Security were everywhere and I mean everywhere, on the tops of stores, the office building nearby must have been thoroughly checked, I don’t know if they’d allow people to even be in their offices at that time. Security Presence was very clear. Comparing the two, obviously security in Dallas seems like it was nothing. Nothing was left to chance and this was only the Vice President. Thousands of people were at the event I was at.
Yes, and in 1981 one little punk with a .22 revolver defeated Reagan’s Secret Service protection and nearly killed him. Government workers, even the so-called “elite,” screw up regularly.