To: Mr. Brightside
I know it was different times back then, but why in the **** did they have the POTUS riding thru a city in an open limo like that?
It was just the times I guess, and unless he is in a fortress all the time, the POTUS will be at risk to a degree.
That trip GB took down into Chile a few years ago could have turned out real bad.
47 posted on
02/19/2007 11:08:24 PM PST by
RunningWolf
(2-1 Cav 1975)
To: RunningWolf
I know it was different times back then, but why in the **** did they have the POTUS riding thru a city in an open limo like that? Because the government had not yet grown to the level that it feared its own people. Before 1900, you could go up to the White House door and knock on it. There was no fence.
48 posted on
02/19/2007 11:26:27 PM PST by
FreedomCalls
(It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
To: RunningWolf; FreedomCalls
"...I know it was different times back then, but why in the **** did they have the POTUS riding thru a city in an open limo like that?..."
I've read in a few books about That Day in Dallas the the SS asked President Kennedy about the bubble top. Should they put it on or leave it off. Kennedy told them to leave it off. It was a nice day and it would obscure their viw of the crowds and the crowds view of them. I saw President Johnson when he came to Memphis in 1964 or 1965 and he had the bubble top on. I believe it was the same car, too. I would have to do some digging to confirm that, though.
60 posted on
02/21/2007 6:52:37 AM PST by
NCC-1701
(PUT AN END TO ORGANIZED CRIME. ABOLISH THE IRS.)
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