United States Secret Service Quotes
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Mrs. Roosevelt was the eyes and ears of FDR who, limited by polio, could not get around easily.
United States Secret Service, Code Name for Eleanor Roosevelt given because she traveled so much., 1930s & 1940s
Sourced by: Eigen's Political and Historical Quotations
This historical quotation gives us an interesting picture or Secret Service practices and First Family Security in 1937. Unlike all the first ladies before her and most after her, she was a very active political figure and regularly received threats. Yet she not only drove alone on occasions, but published that fact to the world in this column. Also, although an extreme liberal, she had little trouble carrying a gun and learning to use it. Her father and her Uncle Theodore Roosevelt both were very comfortable with guns. What is surprising is that the Secret Service did not provide more protection for her. At that time gun ownership had not yet become a political issue, and Mrs. Roosevelt, a committed liberal, thought nothing of “packing heat” at a personal level.
At the beginning of the Job Corps, a number of academics and urban political figures were very critical of taking young men from the cities and brining them to rural centers in National Parks and Forests for basic education and work training. It was decided that instead of Sargent Shriver the Head of the Anti Poverty Program or Otis Singletary, the Jobe Corps Director, Eigen would give a major presentation at an academic conference ammouncing the scale and scope of the planned program. If the objection was too great, Singletary and Shriver could say that Eigen was just proposing his ideas that were under consideration but they had not reached a decision and Eigen did not prepresent the views of the administration. Fortunately he handled the critics well and was persuasive enough to oftain the support of many of the Conference attendees, and the Newspaper accounts were very favorible, so what Eigen said was the official policy and design of the Job Corps program which, with Head Start, were the only two programs for the War on Poverty that still opperated 60 years thereafter. Eigen told this story in a Primer he wrote for new Federal appointees who most often have little or no understanding of the operations of the Federal Government.
The United States Secret Service (USSS or Secret Service) is a federal law enforcement agency under the Department of Homeland Security charged with conducting criminal investigations and protecting U.S. political leaders, their families, and visiting heads of state or government. Until 2003, the Secret Service was part of the Department of the Treasury, as the agency was founded in 1865 to combat the then-widespread counterfeiting of U.S. currency.
