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The Secret Service accompanies the president and the First Family everywhere, but it wasn't always this way. It would take a third assassination of a U.S. president -- William McKinley -- to prompt Congress to assign full official protection of acting presidents. In 1902, within months of McKinley's death, a Secret Service detail was assigned to guard the president of the United States 24-7-365. And that remains the norm to this day.
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