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This American President

Guarding the Most Famous Woman in the World: Clint Hill's Travels With Jacqueline Kennedy

This American President

This American President

Society & Culture, Education, History

4.6698 Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Secret Service Agent Clint Hill personally knew and protected First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, as well as five American presidents. He and his wife, author Lisa McCubbin Hill, have just released a new book, My Travels With Mrs. Kennedy, where they share...

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The

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The Our guests today are a power couple when it comes to history.

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And I say that because one of them lived through it.

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And the other one has written extensively about it.

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They are Clint Hill and Lisa McCubbin Hill. Mr. Hill served our country as a secret service agent for President's

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Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford. Mrs. Hill is a journalist and author.

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She's written the definitive biography of First Lady Betty Ford. And together,

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and together, together, repeated bestsellers. The most recent book they've written is My Travels

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with Mrs. Kennedy. And if you want a behind-the-scenes look at what it's like to protect the most

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admired woman in the world, This is the book to read.

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Mr. and Mrs. Hill, thank you for coming on to our podcast. Thanks for having us, Richard.

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Thank you, sir. So this book starts in your garage in Alexandria, Virginia in 2019,

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which is an unusual place to start a book.

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So how did this journey begin?

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We were back in D.C. on a trip that involved some meetings.

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But in the process, I owned this house in Alexandria, had not lived in it for a few years, and decided it was time to sell it.

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So I told Lisa, I think we better go out there and see what's there, because I had thrown away most of the things, but I knew there were some things out there.

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I didn't think there would be anything to say, but so we went out there and we started looking around,

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and she noticed in the garage there was a trunk.

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And the address on the trunk said Clinton Hill, the White House, Washington, D.C.

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And she said, this is exactly the way you have described this to me in the past.

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I said, yes, that's it.

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