Uncle Doc J
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I watched The History(squared) Channel's America's Book of Secrets "Secret Service"-episode and learned that--though we often paint the President as 'just another company-executive out there doing what he thinks is in shareholders' best interest'--the danger of the position (with something like four successful assassinations and about twelve unsuccessful attempts) is exponentially higher than that of any other position in the world!
But I wonder Why? For instance, what did John Wilkes Booth change about America's destiny by offing Abraham Lincoln? The ABoS-episode said that Booth may have been part of a conspiracy to off Lincoln, his Vice-President and his ... the one that would be President if both the President AND Vice-President had died, the Secretary-of-State?---a conspiracy to kill the leaders in order to kick-off a resurgence of the Confederate Revolution. But that wouldn't have happened, would it?
And now we've the Secret Service (which was originally--and might still be--in charge of protecting the Federal Reserve) protecting the President like they're chaperoning him through a war-zone! No wonder Presidents so-frequently make all kinds of wrong decisions!
But I wonder Why? For instance, what did John Wilkes Booth change about America's destiny by offing Abraham Lincoln? The ABoS-episode said that Booth may have been part of a conspiracy to off Lincoln, his Vice-President and his ... the one that would be President if both the President AND Vice-President had died, the Secretary-of-State?---a conspiracy to kill the leaders in order to kick-off a resurgence of the Confederate Revolution. But that wouldn't have happened, would it?
And now we've the Secret Service (which was originally--and might still be--in charge of protecting the Federal Reserve) protecting the President like they're chaperoning him through a war-zone! No wonder Presidents so-frequently make all kinds of wrong decisions!