Musical Events at the White House
During the terms of Theodore Roosevelt (1901-1909), White House musical events became a major, regularly scheduled feature of the mansion’s...
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Which president was assigned the first full-time Secret Service detail?
During the Theodore Roosevelt administration, the Secret Service assumed full-time responsibility for protecting the President. President Roosevelt was guarded by at least two Secret Service men. President Roosevelt wrote Senator Henry Cabot Lodge in 1906: “The secret service men are a very small but very necessary thorn in the flesh.”
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