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RetNavy wrote:

myntalfloss wrote:.... shutting it down for the Prez probably didn't make a discernible difference.

another time Clinton was coming back from a overseas visit..... decided to stop in Hawaii for a round of golf..... HPD closed down H1 freeway in BOTH directions so he could be driven to the golf course..... normally wouldn't have been a problem but it was during evening rush hour.... played 9 holes and closed freeway again so he could leave....

Think about what an arrogant narcissist you have to be to disrupt the lives of thousands of people so you can get a haircut, play a round of golf, or drop in on some BBQ joint. The very fact that they do this so routinely tells you all you need to know about their character and their feelings about the American people.

philip964 wrote:

sjfcontrol wrote:In the early 1970's, Nixon decided to visit K-State (prompting KU to dub us "Nixon's favorite High School" )

Anyway, for a couple of weeks before the visit, the campus was crawling with Secret Service. In order to blend in with the college crowd, they were apparently allowed to take off their jackets. So, yeah, a bunch of older men, with short hair, wearing white shirts and ties blended well with a bunch of younger, long-haired kids in tie-died t-shirts.

My buddy recorded his speech, and also picked up my running commentary (not complementary). The Republican Students brought in signs, which were strictly forbidden.

That's the only time I've been in the same room with a president.

Nixon and I have since settled our differences.

Small world. I was there as well. Cheering him on, booing the five or six protestors that tried to shout out "Four dead in Ohio". Yet not long afterwards, I was supporting George McGovern.

When I was in high school we were bussed to the Harlingen airport to see President Nixon. We weren't background checked, questioned, searched, or isolated. He walked down a line of students shaking hands.

Cedar Park Dad wrote:

I don't know how offended I'd be by being asked to put it away or leave.. That's much less invasive than shutting down the roads that the president travels on. Or the No-fly zone that was present over airports surrounding austin...

That still happens. I know, I've been caught in it when he was in Houston on a fundraiser, shut the whole downtown down.

I can actually understand why they would want to search people there, if I have the option of not being there.

HOWEVER...i'd bet good money the won't let you leave, under the guise you might be alerting someone. But I'm talking out of my butt and thankfully have no experience at all.

Having worked at Sams when former Bush Sr. appeared twice they never did any of that nonsense. He just sort of...appeared with a bunch of people.

Those who believe they'd merely be asked to leave are kidding themselves. If he showed up unannounced and you were discovered to have a gun, CHL or not, they'd take your gun and detain you at a minimum, probably interrogate you for a few hours, and possibly even arrest you for cover.....probably dropping the charges later. There's not a thing you could do about it and any lawsuit would dismissed out of hand.

BTW, I ran into Laura Bush and two SS guards in DFW. I was miffed because our non-stop flight had gotten stopped and we lost our seating positions, so I went through the doors to the pre-boarding area for Southwest, and found myself in front of Mrs. Bush, two assistants, two SS guards, and a uniformed Dallas officer. They barely looked at me, they didn't tell me to leave, and in fact, never questioned or said a word to me.