Obama & The Secret Service

As we watch Barack Obama’s public life alter dramatically (we can remember a visit to our offices two years ago, with no entourage to speak of), you cannot help but notice the secret service — at the gym, with Michelle Obama, and hovering at the Washington, DC schools the soon-to-be first family was visiting. But did you know… …that Abraham Lincoln OK’d the creation of what would become the Secret Service — on the day he was assassinated? …who was president when the presidential security became a formal objective? And who was in office when Congress codified the "permanent protection" of the First Family? …why the Secret Service once had to guard a President’s child from a charging elephant? …how many members of the Secret Service there are today? For answers to these and other questions…click here.