McCain to Meet With Secret Service

McCain to Meet With Secret Service


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By DAVID ESPO
The Associated Press
Friday, April 4, 2008; 12:55 PM

MEMPHIS -- Sen. John McCain intends to meet with Secret Service officials in the next several days in preparation for accepting security protection for the final several months of his White House bid, campaign officials said Friday.

These officials said no meeting had yet been arranged.

They made the disclosure one day after the head of the Secret Service, Mark Sullivan, took the unusual step of discussing McCain's lack of government security at an open meeting with members of the House Appropriations Committee.

The campaign aides said they did not know precisely when McCain would agree to accept the protection. They spoke on condition of anonymity, saying they did not want to pre-empt events.

The Arizona senator has effectively wrapped up the Republican presidential nomination.

"Statutorily, he is not required to take protection," Sullivan said when asked about McCain's security during a hearing on the agency's budget. "As far as an actual request, we have not gotten one. We have no involvement at this point."

McCain has said previously he does not want Secret Service protection, fearing it would interfere with his brand of intimate campaigning with voters. McCain also has said he'll try to last as long as he can without it.

"I've never done it. After we won New Hampshire in 2000, they really tried to get us, but we said no," McCain said last November while campaigning in Concord, N.H. "It's an invasion of your ability to have contact with voters."

McCain to meet with Secret Service

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I guess he finally came to the conclusion to "look Presidential" you need the Secret Service detail "The President" has, so if you are going to play on the same playing field as Senators Clinton and Obama it's time to start charging the govt for letting SS agents ride your airplane and stay at your house.....

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