Month: June 2018

  • 23 Jun

    The Hope of Glassboro

    On June 23, 1967, fifty-one years ago today, my father was among the agents who protected President Lyndon Johnson at the Glassboro Summit– bearing witness to yet another notable historical event
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    Shortly after the Six-Day War in the Middle…


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  • 17 Jun

    USSS Article: Special Agent Dad

    Check out the following article which was written by the USSS Communications Office for Father’s Day:

    Press release from US Secret Service

     

  • 17 Jun

    Memories of Rufus

    Every year, around Father’s Day, my garden bursts with a kaleidoscope of flowering daylilies Some are solid; some are variegated Some have ruffled fans, green throats, patterned dips, soft violet eyes—terminology my father used when describing them…


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  • 5 Jun

    RFK’s Call for Peace

    In a chapter entitled “Dark Days: 1968,” my father describes the tumultuous events of 1968 The year which would be one of the deadliest of the Vietnam war began with the bloody Tet Offensive in January On…


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