Through Five Administrations

[L Verge]

Gene,

I think the fact that Crook is the only source I have ever seen that identifies the Metro police assigning an escort service to Lincoln. Kauffman evidently found a different source that indicated their duties were to protect the White House and its furnishings, but I don't remember if he cites it (and am too lazy to look). Somewhere, there must be (or used to be) written documentation as to exactly what that special police unit was assigned to do.

Here's an interesting link, but it quotes Crook again, and he may have elevated the position of the unit for personal satisfaction: http://www.mrlincolnswhitehouse.org/insi...ubjectID=3