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takes my validations where I finds 'em, and discovering that Jummy's
Secret Service detachment hated him is sweet. A new book dumps on Teh
Jummah while he's still alive to enjoy it. Here's some excerpts,
courtesy NewsMax, from "In the President's Secret Service: Behind the Scenes With Agents in the Line of Fire and the Presidents They Protect," by Ron Kessler.
- Carter treated with contempt the little people who
helped and protected him," and told agents not to look at him or speak
to him — even to say hello — when he went to the Oval Office, Kessler
disclosed. "For three and a half years, agent John Piasecky was on
Carter's detail — including seven months of driving him in the
presidential limousine — and Carter never spoke to him, he says.
- refused to allow a military aide with the
nuclear football to stay in a trailer on his property in Plains. The
aide had to stay in Americus, a 15-minute drive from Carter's home, a
top military official confirmed to Kessler. "... Carter could not have launched a counterattack by calling the
aide in Americus," Kessler writes. "By the time the military aide drove
to Carter's home, the United States would have been within five minutes
of being wiped out by nuclear-tipped missiles."
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- Early in his presidency, Carter proclaimed that the White House would
be "dry," and only wine, but no liquor, would be served at state
dinners.The word was passed to get rid of all the booze on Air Force One, at
Camp David, and in the White House. But on the first Sunday the Carters
were in the White House, they ordered up Bloody Marys before going to
church.
- On one occasion, disgruntled agents deliberately left Carter's luggage
in the trunk of his car at an airport, and Carter "was without clothes
for two days."
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