Booth's Note to Johnson

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A former Secret Service agent and trainer (LBJ through Clinton, I believe) has contributed two articles about the Secret Service that will appear in the February issue of the Surratt Courier. In one of the articles, he notes that the controversial Lafayette Baker lost his job after going up against one of President Andrew Johnson's lady friends -- I believe her name was Lucy Cobb.

Lucy was (at least) one of the brokers who flourished after the Civil War in getting paroles, etc. Baker did not care for her kind and ordered her off the premises. She let him know that the President would have something to say about her treatment. She won, and Baker rode off into the sunset. Our member cautions that one of the rules of training for presidential protective services is to ignore the boss' affairs.