Five Presidents, One Wedding, and a New Baby
Five Presidents Four months ago today – May 3, 2016 – Clint Hill and I released our third book together: Five Presidents: My Extraordinary Journey with Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford. And what a whirlwind it has been since then! We were on what seemed like a never-ending book tour that began in New York…
Read MoreSecret Service Agent Clint Hill and Five Presidents
Following is an article about Secret Service Agent Clint Hill and coauthor Lisa McCubbin that appeared on the front page of The Ark newspaper June 1, 2016, Tiburon, California. AT THE CENTER OF POWER: Tiburon duo’s ‘Five Presidents’ explores intimacies, costs of life in the Secret Service By Heather Lobdell Tiburon authors Clint Hill and Lisa…
Read MoreFive Presidents is a New York Times bestseller!
Finishing a book and turning in the final manuscript to the publisher is kind of like turning in a term paper and waiting for the grade from your professor. For Secret Service agent Clint Hill and me, writing Five Presidents: My Extraordinary Journey with Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford was an enormous undertaking. We visited…
Read MoreFive Presidents 2016 Book Tour–With Secret Service Agent Clint Hill
Clint Hill and I are counting down the days to the release of our latest collaboration, FIVE PRESIDENTS: My Extraordinary Journey with Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford, on sale May 3. Our 2016 nationwide book tour begins in New York City May 2. Seating and tickets for most events are limited, and some have already…
Read MoreSecret Service Agent Clint Hill's Vow
When I first met retired U.S. Secret Service agent Clint Hill 6 1/2 years ago, he told me two things. “I don’t talk to anybody about that day ever,” and, “I will never write a book.” Two days ago, we received our first copies of Five Presidents: My Extraordinary Journey with Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford.…
Read MoreSecret Service Agent Clint Hill recalls Martin Luther King Assassination
By the beginning of April 1968 the presidential campaign was taking twists and turns no one could have predicted. After winning the 1964 election in a landslide, President Lyndon B. Johnson had shocked the nation in a speech on March 31 by announcing he would not seek reelection. Two weeks before that, Senator Robert F. Kennedy had thrown…
Read MoreSecret Service Then and Now With Clint Hill
One of my favorite things about writing with Secret Service agent Clint Hill is going through the piles of photos he has in his personal collection. Every photo tells a story and when Clint Hill sits right beside me, pointing out details I might not have noticed, it allows me enormous insight into the challenges the Secret…
Read MorePraise for the U.S. Secret Service
On Saturday, March 12, Secret Service agents jumped into action, surrounding presidential candidate Donald Trump, when a man tried to rush the stage. The agents did their job. Cover the protectee, and evacuate, if necessary. The man was apprehended, the threat was eliminated, and Trump carried on. Clint Hill noted in a Facebook post that…
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