US Secret Service - Obama Presidency Oral History Back US Secret Service Index / Organizations Transcript Andrew Stern ...have printed in my home. There were no Secret Service around when we got off a bus comin... ...after the swearing-in. I mean, no Secret Service . I almost thought, Are they trying t... ...we can slip in and say hello. There's Secret Service agents. I can't remember which of th... ...the president. So we get through the Secret Service . We're now right behind the president... ...in the presidential reviewing stand. No Secret Service . [Makes sound] I said, “Mr. President... Aneesh Chopra ...this was an easy project because the Secret Service maintained a log of everybody who had ... Carol Browner ...meeting. We go running up the stairs, Secret Service and Obama and Hillary [Rodham Clinton]... ...touch Obama—like, put his hand up. The US Secret Service was having none of that. The next thin... Heather Zichal ...[laughs] expected that he'd defy his Secret Service and go do that. But, again, it's one o... Lisa Jackson ...Up rolls this car. He doesn't have Secret Service or anything by that. He rolls up. H... Nancy Nielsen ...and so we were there with the Secret Service . And as he came toward me wit... ...is a friend of mine, I had said to the Secret Service man, I said, “Would it be okay to giv... ...he said, “No, ma'am. You might have a Secret Service person pull you away. You can't d... ...over and hugged me. And I said to the Secret Service , “See? Got you!” [Laughs] So it was ... ...with the young man, actually another Secret Service man, in a large room, she came in. An... Nancy Sutley ...there was no food. So we walked out, Secret Service [unclear], and immediately were mobbe... Melanie Bahnke ...meeting was over, I asked one of the Secret Service guys, “Is that standard that he's go... ... And then he left, and one of the Secret Service guys in a suit with the earpiece, ver... ...“Josh,” and that's when he said—so the Secret Service guy who heard this whole conversatio... ...he would've accepted an email, and his Secret Service guy gave me his card. I guess, you sai... Jim Houser ...When we got there, it was all this Secret Service . And they put practically a ten... Nancy-Ann DeParle ...children went, and his kids. Then the Secret Service also told me, so I had to tell hi... ...if we were flying into a new place, the Secret Service would do a briefing for me right befor... ...into this arena. Obviously I trust the Secret Service , but my God, that arena has go... ...Ohio, somewhere—and I spoke with the Secret Service , and I talked to Alyssa. And the... ...children went, and his kids. Then the Secret Service also told me, so I had to tell hi... ...if we were flying into a new place, the Secret Service would do a briefing for me right befor... ...into this arena. Obviously I trust the Secret Service , but my God, that arena has go... ...Ohio, somewhere—and I spoke with the Secret Service , and I talked to Alyssa. And the... Show more... Load more Transcripts Related Topics go to the Climate, Environment, and Energy Climate, Environment, and Energy go to the Healthcare Healthcare Republican Opposition Coming soon Counterterrorism Coming soon Black Politics Coming soon