Hunting the President: Threats, Plots and Assassination Attempts, Part 4: Bill Clinton

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History Unplugged

Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 31 January 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Many tried to kill Bill Clinton during his presidency, including former military officers, white supremacists, and a little-known militant named Osama bin Laden. Most famously, Frank Eugene Corder crashed a Cessna onto the White House lawn. Learn about other attempts on the life of the 42nd president in this episode.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the History Unplugged Podcast.
0:05.4	The unscripted show that celebrates unsung heroes, Mythbust's historical lies, and rediscoveres
0:11.9	the forgotten stories that changed our world.
0:15.5	I'm your host, Scott Rank.
0:18.4	Hi everyone, welcome to our ongoing series on assassination attempts against presidents.
0:26.3	What made would be assassins target presidents and did presidents themselves target certain
0:32.0	types of assassins?
0:33.4	Well, the type of person that went after FDR be different from the type of person that
0:37.4	went after JFK, and in turn be different from the type of person that went after Bill
0:41.7	Clinton or Barack Obama.
0:43.9	In this episode, we're looking at the targeting of President Bill Clinton in the 1990s.
0:50.4	Larry Cockle, head of President Clinton's White House detail, from 1998 to 2000 said,
0:56.0	we don't want to be perceived as flies on the wall.
0:59.0	When sensitive family issues were discussed, and as much as possible, I didn't want to
1:03.1	hear.
1:04.1	I didn't want to know, I felt awkward being present.
1:07.1	So, that shows you, during the Clinton administration, there are all sorts of dynamics being played
1:11.2	out to become tabloid media fodder, and the Secret Service had a front row to everything
1:16.3	else going on.
1:17.3	So, the Secret Service, in addition to protecting the president, also knew more about their personal
1:22.8	lives than just about anyone else.
1:26.0	Let me give just a brief background of the presidency of Bill Clinton, its characteristics,
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