The U.S. Secret Service was originally established by the Department of the Treasury in 1865 to prevent counterfeiting. They later assumed full-time responsibility for protecting the president during the Theodore Roosevelt administration, prompted by the assassination of his predecessor, William McKinley. Since the Roosevelt administration, the ...

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2015年10月20日 · The White House Police Force was created in 1922, placed under the supervision of the Secret Service in 1930, and later renamed the Executive Protective Service in 1970. It was renamed the Secret Service Uniformed Division in 1977. President Barack Obama addresses officers before a group photo at the South Portico of the White House, 2011.

Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter Carol Leonnig discusses her recent book, Zero Fail, which details the history of the Secret Service and the evolving security challenges faced by agents everyday as they protect the President, the First Family, and those who seek the office.

Worried about the march of Coxey's Army of the unemployed, and the violence accompanying the Pullman railroad strike, Thurber worked with the Metropolitan Police superintendent to increase the D.C. Metropolitan Police's White House detail to 34, and secured approval from Treasury Secretary John G. Carlisle for the Secret Service to begin ...

2011年4月4日 · The White House police force was placed under United States Secret Service Uniformed Division in 1930. President Barack Obama addresses United States Secret Service Uniformed Division officers before a group photo at the …

The appearance of military uniforms on White House staff has seemed too threatening to please the public so except during wartime they are avoided in favor of less fanciful dress, usually either copied from a metropolitan police force or the even simpler uniforms of the Secret Service.

Yet nothing that might be considered “secret” resulted. When Theodore Roosevelt modernized the White House in 1902, polishing up the historical image while making the interior more compatible to ceremonial and private life, the corner room on the north- west was subdivided horizontally to provide a mezzanine level that doubled the space for ...

2020年4月23日 · Michael Sampson, an archivist with the Secret Service, gives a summary of the evolution and role of the agency. For the Quarterly’s presidential site feature, Elyse Werling takes readers to the Wilcox House in Buffalo, New York, where, following President McKinley’s death and a breakneck midnight trek to Buffalo, Vice President Theodore ...

In this photograph, taken by White House Photographer David Hume Kennerly on December 27, 1974, President Gerald Ford enjoys a ski holiday on the slopes of Vail Mountain, while a Secret Service agent keeps watch in the background.