Sharing the grounds with history and science Alerted by a helpful agent, Bush avoiding the waiting photographers by sneaking back into the residence and crawling to her closet to get to her clothes. The agents, however, had Barbara Bush’s back when, clad in a bathrobe, she took her dog for an early morning walk not knowing the Soviet foreign minister was about to arrive for a breakfast meeting. That came as a surprise to Barbara Bush, who at the time was Second Lady under Ronald Reagan, nonetheless found it amusing. One agent, for example, convinced another it was perfectly fine to do his laundry at the residence. Secret Service agents were not above pranking each other during the long, and often tedious hours they spent protecting the Second Family.
(Years later, Dick Cheney’s granddaughter would inadvertently summon the Secret Service by mistaking a panic button in the bathroom for the way to flush the toilet.) Secret Service pranks “They requested I never do that again,” Eleanor recalled in a 1998 interview. When the agents burst in with guns drawn, Eleanor explained it was a fleshless man she’d sensed. Eleanor Mondale’s ghostĬonvinced she was being visited by a ghost one night, Walter Mondale’s teenage daughter Eleanor called the Secret Service to report a man in her room. Bush politely said, `You’re welcome anytime We don’t need the bed,’” Denyer said. But while Rockefeller was willing to leave it behind for his successors, he had no takers.
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