Presidential security

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I only remember that being in Michael Hurwitz's book, which (IMO) needs to be taken with a grain of salt. Michael is very nice and very talented. He does great one-man shows on various historical characters. He performed as Mark Twain at one of the Surratt functions a few years ago.

Like our Tom, he is very much into the theater end of things, and his book - as he explained it to me - was designed to show the backstage efforts of theater employees at that time. Sort of a perspective from the viewpoint of men like Spangler. However, I also feel that he had to pull that thing about Mary slipping Parker money out of some source. I can't believe that he would pull it out of thin air.