Show pres I 1 edenfi al I 1 ravel Is m a or roi act chief executive zealously guarded by secret service fly by BAUKHAGE news analyst and commentator h washington when president truman finally announced no need that ho he was going to brazil lieras ho was immediately asked if lie he contemplated any trips across continental united states he answered in the negative A reporter piped up this year or next year THIS year the president replied that gave the white house press and radio conference a short shor interlude of of laughter for fop the reason that whenever a president Is forced for ced to drop his role of chief execUtive to assume the functions of candidate it to la junny funny frequently it fu tunny anny for the candidate esp especially when ho he has afen used to the respect spontaneously and except inflection in election years almost universally tendered his office A presidential trip may be ln many cases tun fun for or the president but it much fun for a lot of other people not that all presidents have had easy traveling it was an ordeal lor for the early heads ot of mhd nation just to get homo home in the sigge stagecoach coach and tavern days 1 az president garfield Garf leid was shot in a railroad station mckinley was wa s killed by d a half mad anarchist ou oh a trip to the pan american exposition in buffalo died in san francisco on his way back from a sang around that thai had taken him to Bauk Hauk baukhage hago vancouver can oda ada wilson suffered a stroke in his pullman Theo theodora dott roo roosevelt volt was wounded while be add addi addressed leased essed a aa meeting on a vi milwaukee furthermore athas it lias been recently revealed by tho the head of tho secret service mike reilly Ilc llly in hla of the white house that Vr franklin anklIn velt who disliked air travel nearly cracked up tn in malta and night might have been assassinated tn in bpark KP ft park ark in miami had ho not t leaned out of his car to take a tele telegram grint mayor anton carmak of chicago was killed and four other persona person wounded stayed within tip to franklin Roosevel ts time toft taft was tha of prest 1 dents end and in tsoi worried corrica all the constitutionalists unfamiliar the constitution by visiting the Can alZone however he was sarit pulou sly carcam to stay on board tho the american warship L touched only american soil ishad i been considered an unwritten law since george borge time he be had refused to enter enfer rhode island lit was union that a president in office could nOt 1 leaver ae fw country when W woodrow 0 codr ow 1 parts paris and vice pres ident thomas marshall MaFs hall hadbo pro side at cabinet i meetings tIngs the alco aico president madell boado it clear he was of ficiA ting only at the request t of t signal corp k photo Truman jece receives ves icle iciest type message ines sago aboard the presa 1 radio car standing by tl the are lot lt clinton 0 iv conover Conov cir left lct maintenance of leer of the agency I 1 and ls 18 lt harvard 13 dudley i 1 cryptographic cryptograph toi white House signal detachment vilson ond end that tic he consider t leaving the country f ed the presidency f travel has become A rf dent must and mr Tr a trip to south america Is just f routine i but it Is complicated 1 routine 1 4 tori for a whole army of people aliat t thase people do Is little ro known iown to tho the public especially the j secret service one out of every 10 J of our presidents has been As assassa sasal a i noted up to the time congress turned the job of protecting the chief executive over to the secret service since then no president demi y has been assassinated theirs the secret service Is 13 a 3 heartbreaking job and never have the det details alls been so thoroughly re i healed to the di discomfiture of ct some OX 6 of ahls former colleagues as w V by aalke he in the book I 1 men 11 honed of course in wartime the job was anore complicated and the armmand 11 arm yand d gayy we worked aked closely with ii A special air h 1 h fal e r raid alert system was designed reilly tays says to protect anywhere in the united states when a spotter or watcher either civilian or mill military tari spot fed cd an airplane ho he or r site aho was unable to identify any lil place botn greengard Ore Gre to the be straits of magellan the he information was radioed immediately to the army air force headquarters at mitchell Ml field N Y the information was immediately evaluated and conveyed by radio and land line to the secret service communication system oysten where men were stan standing dinga a 24 hour watch this system tied together mitchell Ml field boiling field the homes offices and automobiles automobile of various secret service agents field offices throughout the country all secret service mobile units the presidents President 8 train shangri la and the presidents room ot at llyde park president kept informed constantly but keeping the president alive is only one activity keeping him in touch with his job is another once when a bullying congress demanded of president grant which it if any of hla his duties he performed in washington he replied that his business and where ho he did it was his own affair nowa now a presidents out of town business Is h lot of peoples affairs in wartime this signal cor corps ps detail hud had the mission of speeding the presidents top secret communications from the lh highest level conference tables to installations in the held i today as major mcnally puli put it wherever the President trat lavels ravels ra vels els the ho white house signal detachment continues its task of weaving deftly an intricate communications net nei which enables the 0 commander fil chaitt futudo and iho he might have added a travel I 1 ling candidate to keep 1 conat ny andly informed anti and in touch tenth with tho nation this work of weaving this comi i nv net is 19 an exciting story too tod long to decou recount 1 nt heir here 0 I 1 but let me quote major briefly show how continuous comme was maintained when president roo roosevelt 1 evelt I made one ona of his frequent trips to hyde park A 60 50 watt frequency modulation station was and installed on the secret service cor car attached to the presidential train awny army ve hides radio equipped were spotted at strategically plotted points along tho the route between washington and poughkeepsie le so that the train aia was in constant touch vath the white house all the way another FM radio link was Indal installed led inthe in the old st stable ableon on the presidents estate at llyde hydo park by means of 01 a direct telephone line to was Washl ing ngi ton and frequency modulation rn ra dlo dio the white house was kept informed of 0 the presidents whereabouts nt at all times the I 1 speed led with which messages could bl be dispatched and answers received was astounding when win tan stan Chur churchill thill was making his second visit to hyde park he and the president who were keen compete campett tors as well as close collaborators decided to make a speed ts tast on the communications facilities each sent identical messages to australia over the respective british and united states tates faculties facilities the prest dent hadan had en answer in less than two hours the prime minister got his the next day |