When I was five years old President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, and that act of political violence forever changed the security afforded the President, and the Vice President.
But until yesterday, the others lower down in the Presidential line of succession seemed to be able to live without extraordinary security.
Had Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi been at her home, a deranged man would have broken in the home of the third in line for the Presidency at 2:30 in the morning, with consequences hard to imagine.
There are 435 Representatives, 100 Senators, 9 Supreme Court Justices, and 24 cabinet members, each one living in a private home, with loved ones present.
Our Constitutional Republic depends on each one being able to get a good night’s sleep,
My father used to laugh at his father, who died in 1952, predicting the time would come again everybody would be wearing a gun, or have it really close, just like the Old West.
It’s not so funny today.
But until yesterday, the others lower down in the Presidential line of succession seemed to be able to live without extraordinary security.
Had Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi been at her home, a deranged man would have broken in the home of the third in line for the Presidency at 2:30 in the morning, with consequences hard to imagine.
There are 435 Representatives, 100 Senators, 9 Supreme Court Justices, and 24 cabinet members, each one living in a private home, with loved ones present.
Our Constitutional Republic depends on each one being able to get a good night’s sleep,
My father used to laugh at his father, who died in 1952, predicting the time would come again everybody would be wearing a gun, or have it really close, just like the Old West.
It’s not so funny today.