Five Presidents
Book description
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Kennedy and Me and Five Days in November reflects on his seventeen years in the Secret Service for presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford.
The assassination of one president, the resignation of another, and the swearing-in of the two who…
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2 authors picked Five Presidents as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I read this book twice this year – once in print and then I knew my husband would enjoy it, so we listened together while traveling on audio. We were both in elementary school when Eisenhower was President and so the five presidents were all part of our generation.
I am not a history buff, and historical books are not my genre, but I found this so detailed and fascinating that I was excited to share it with others. The Vietnam War left a terrible legacy for LBJ, and this book changed my opinion of him. Agent Hill was able…
Clint Hill’s legacy is his courageous action in the presidential motorcade during the JFK assassination. His career and mine overlapped. We address events occurring during the same era but from different perspectives. His as a Secret Service Agent on protective details and mine as an FBI Agent investigating criminal cases and personally assisting J. Edgar Hoover who worked under eight presidents and sixteen attorneys general. Hill had to be politically correct under all circumstances while I could get away with a blurred PC often to solve a criminal case. At times, our observance of historic events varied—but again we viewed…
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