A Secret Service Agent

What It's Like To Be...

Dan Heath

Curiosity, Jobs, Careers, Business, Storytelling, Society & Culture, Human Interest

4.8 • 646 Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Scanning crowds for suspicious behavior, learning how to leap from moving vehicles, and investigating every threat to the president with Cindy Marble, a retired Secret Service agent. What's it like to witness history up close? And what is "left of boom"? GOT A COMMENT OR SUGGESTION? Email us at [email protected] WANT TO BE ON THE SHOW? Leave us a voicemail at (919) 213-0456. We’ll ask you to answer two questions: 1. What’s a word or phrase that only someone from your profession would be ...

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0:00.0	Okay, let's do this. Bill Clinton.
0:04.6	You want me to give him to you?
0:06.0	Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Eagle.
0:08.4	George W. Bush?
0:09.9	George W. Trowleaser.
0:11.7	Obama?
0:13.2	Renegade. Donald Trump?
0:16.4	You know what? That one, I don't know because I was out by that time.
0:21.3	I retired in 2016.
0:23.5	That's Cindy Marble. She worked for the Secret Service for almost 27 years,
0:28.4	which included stints guarding George W. Bush and his father, George H.W. Bush.
0:33.3	I was asking her about the code names used for different presidents.
0:40.8	Donald Trump is mogul, by the way, and Joe Biden is Celtic.
0:49.9	One of the things I didn't know about code names was that the code names of everyone in a president's family will share the same first letter.
0:53.1	So, as she said, George W. Bush was Trailblazer.
0:57.3	Laura Bush, Tempo. Barbara Bush, turquoise,
1:04.1	Jenna Bush was Twinkle. Nice alliteration there. I asked Cindy, where those code names come from?
1:08.9	White House Communication Agency, Waka gives those. So they'll assign them?
1:13.4	Mm-hmm. Do the candidates or, I or I guess presidents have any choice in those?
1:18.4	They do. I mean, I know that some protectees have gotten them and then changed them.
1:24.5	They didn't get a name they wanted. They wanted a sexier name. Right. And it was Vice President Gore got Saw Horse. That was the first one that was picked for him. And it, first of all, it was just hard to say. So then he went with, I believe it was Sundance. Yeah, I think is what it's like to be.
1:47.7	In every episode, we walk in the shoes of someone from a different profession,
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