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\f0\fs26 \cf0 (Image source: {\field{\*\fldinst{HYPERLINK "http://dailycaller.com/2013/01/10/obama-signs-bill-giving-himself-lifetime-secret-service-protection/"}}{\fldrslt
\cf2 The Daily Caller}}) \f1\fs24 \uc0\u8232 \u8232
\f0\b\fs26 BY LOGAN TITTLE \b0\fs24 \cf3 \
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\b\fs26 \cf0 ANCHOR JAMAL ANDRESS \f1\b0\fs24 \uc0\u8232 \u8232
\f0\fs26 President Barack Obama signed a bill Thursday granting former presidents lifetime
access to the Secret Service. \f1\fs24 \uc0\u8232 \u8232
\f0\fs26 The bill, called \'93Former Presidents Protection Act of 2012,\'94 {\field{\*\fldinst{HYPERLINK
"http://dailycaller.com/2013/01/10/obama-signs-bill-giving-himself-lifetime-secret-service-protection/"}}{\fldrslt \cf4 \ul \ulc4 grants Secret Service protection
to former presidents who would have only been protected for 10 years after leaving office}}.
\f1\fs24 \uc0\u8232 \u8232 \f0\fs26 Those 10 years were guaranteed under
a law signed in 1994. {\field{\*\fldinst{HYPERLINK "http://www.foxnews.com/"}}{\fldrslt \cf4
\ul \ulc4 This new law will cover former presidents and first ladies elected after 1997\'97as
well as their children}}, but only until the age of 16. Presidents elected before 1997
already got lifelong protection. \f1\fs24 \uc0\u8232 \u8232
\f0\b\fs26 \'93As it stands now it only impacts the president himself, George W. Bush and
all future presidents.\'94 \f1\b0\fs24 \uc0\u8232 \u8232 {\field{\*\fldinst{HYPERLINK
"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3P4dZb2bT8&list=UUVvxvugtuNZSygB4z4aVfsg&index=6"}}{\fldrslt \f0\fs26 \cf4 \ul \ulc4 The bill was sponsored
by South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy}} \f0\fs26 who reportedly received a request
from the Secret Service. \f1\fs24 \uc0\u8232 \u8232 {\field{\*\fldinst{HYPERLINK
"http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2013/01/former-president-george-w-bush-to-receive-lifetime-secret-service-protection/"}}{\fldrslt \f0\fs26 \cf4 \ul \ulc4 Gowdy\'92s spokesman
told the Houston Chronicle}} \f0\fs26 :
\f1\fs24 \uc0\u8232 \u8232 \f0\b\fs26 \'93We\'92re living in a global
environment with national security threats and with former presidents traveling abroad.
The Secret Service saw a potential risk.\'94 \f1\b0\fs24 \uc0\u8232 \u8232
\f0\fs26 And the {\field{\*\fldinst{HYPERLINK "http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2013/01/obama-signs-lifetime-secret-service-protection-for-george-w-bush-himself-and-future-presidents.html/"}}{\fldrslt
\cf4 \ul \ulc4 Dallas Morning News says}} it took very little time for the bill to become
a law. \f1\fs24 \uc0\u8232 \u8232
\f0\b\fs26 \cf5 \'93...and with bipartisan support. Gowdy \'85 filed it just after Thanksgiving
\'85 The House approved it by voice vote a week later, and it sailed through the Senate
on Dec. 28, again without a roll call vote.\'94 \f1\b0\fs24 \cf0 \uc0\u8232 \u8232 {\field{\*\fldinst{HYPERLINK
"http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/01/lifetime-secret-service-protection-restored-for-presidents-bush-and-obama/"}}{\fldrslt \f0\fs26 \cf4 \ul \ulc4 ABC News notes}}
\f0\fs26 families don\'92t have to accept the protection.
\f1\fs24 \uc0\u8232 \u8232 \f0\b\fs26 \cf6 \'93When President George
Herbert Walker Bush walked away from the inaugural ceremonies of his successor Bill Clinton,
his wife Barbara Bush said farewell to her agents on the Capitol steps, and moved back
to Texas without them.\'94 \f1\b0\fs24 \cf0 \uc0\u8232 \u8232
\f0\fs26 Out of all ex-presidents, only Theodore Roosevelt has ever been attacked after leaving
office. Richard Nixon opted out of Secret Service protection 11 years after leaving
office, hiring his own security instead. \fs24 \cf3 \
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