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EXPLANATORY JOURNALISM: The TerryReport
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News, commentary, opinion on politics, government, books, social trends, American life, travel, cycling, books, other stuff
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This video of President Obama doing something unusual for any recent president of the U.S., taking an unscheduled walk outdoors, was shot by WhiteHouse.gov. the president’s own media group. Obama was walking from the White House to the Interior Department to officially designate a new wilderness area in New Mexico. The Secret Service doesn’t like to have presidents walking the streets, mainly because the people on the streets, and in their cars, have not been prescreened in any way and some random person might want to harm the president. Completely unscheduled and unannounced, however, there is much less chance of something like that happening, because no one knows in advance. A very long time ago, President Harry Truman took a walk from the White House every day. This could never happen now, because it would make the president an easy available target. As stated, this video was shot by the White House and is being made available here as a service by http://terryreport.com
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If you happen to be planning a spring trip to the nation’s capital and think you might be the lucky one who gets to meet the president, forget about it. This is not likely to happen again for a long time, if ever. You might have a better chance of winning the lottery back in your home state. The Secret Service will be very active in discouraging the president from making this any kind of even an irregular habit. We live in a world where terrorism is always a possibility, so meeting a president on the street could be a once or twice in a presidency kind of thing. They don’t call the president “the prisoner of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue” for nothing.
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