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Jake Rossen and Mental_Floss<\/a> present 14 Secrets of Secret Service Agents<\/a>. Here are three of my favorites…<\/p>\n 2. THEY MAKE SURE THE PRESIDENT IS NEVER ALONE. EVEN IN THE BATHROOM.<\/strong><\/p>\n Being on protective detail means following the president wherever he or she might go. This includes the bathroom, the doctor\u2019s office, or anywhere that might benefit from a little privacy. \u201cThe president is never alone,\u201d Robinson says. \u201cWhen Reagan was in office, Joe was there for his prostate exams and colonoscopies. He was always in the room with a gun. And if he thought the doctor was any kind of threat, he would\u2019ve shot him.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 10. THEY TEND TO PICK UP NEW HOBBIES.<\/strong><\/p>\n Because the president is never without an escort, Secret Service agents are often forced to learn new hobbies. Wood didn\u2019t have any experience riding horses when he accompanied Bill Clinton for rides during his two terms. \u201cFortunately, Clinton was not a master horseman like Reagan, so it was just a simple trail ride,\u201d Wood says. But Clinton was a well-conditioned jogger, which forced agents to be in great shape in order to be able to keep up. \u201cYou\u2019re doing your job while running for five miles,\u201d Wood says.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 9. \u201cWORKING THE ROPE\u201d IS THE MOST NERVE-WRACKING PART OF THE JOB.<\/strong> Jake Rossen and Mental_Floss present 14 Secrets of Secret Service Agents. Here are three of my favorites… 2. THEY MAKE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trivia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17781,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17780\/revisions\/17781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAccording to Wood, no other detail duty is quite as stressful as dealing with impromptu presidential greetings with private citizens standing behind a roped-off area. \u201cThat\u2019s where agents earn their money,\u201d he says. \u201cYou have no idea what an uncontrolled crowd might do.\u201d To minimize threats, agents are constantly scanning for hands stuffed in pockets or other signs of suspicious activity. Their omnipresent sunglasses? Those are for crowd-scanning without tipping off potential suspects, and to ward off any liquids or other projectiles thrown in their direction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"