The legislation to create The Secret Service was sitting on Abraham Lincoln's desk the day he was assassinated, awaiting his signature. If he had signed it would his life have been saved?
Actually no, at the time The Secret Service was being created to combat the rising counterfeiting when a recent report stated that 1/3 of all currency in the United States was fake. The Secret Service was created as the only agency that had the jurisdiction to address the problem since no other agency existed at the time. In 1901 president William McKinley was assassinated by Leon Czolgosz, an American anarchist, congress asked The Secret Service to assume the role that they are best known for, protecting the president. Since assuming that job no president has been assassinated with one exception, John F. Kennedy.
But that's because a "super hero" killed him. Ugh, that was a bad movie. I'm sorry you fell asleep, because you deserved to be punished for making me watch it.
Posted by: La Femme | 10/19/2009 at 09:16 AM