Number two, exercise 16.0:03
Unusual Jobs A Bodyguard and Do Task A in your student's book Unusual Jobs A Bodyguard.0:08
The profession has been recently romanticized through American films.0:23
For a long time, it has been primarily associated with American lifestyle and it's not surprising.0:29
Altogether, four American presidents have been assassinated and attempts have been made on the lives of others.0:38
The first president to be killed was Abraham Lincoln.0:46
He was shot while attending the theater in Washington.0:50
James Garfield was shot a few months after his inauguration and died at the age of 49.0:55
William McKinley was killed in Buffalo, New York in 1901.1:03
John Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas in 1963.1:10
After the third assassination in 1901, the protection of presidents was put in the hands of the United States Secret Service.1:17
And nowadays, wherever a president goes, he is surrounded by Secret Service guards who all have a tendency to look very similar.1:27
The unsmiling men with short haircuts and sunglasses are easy to recognise in the crowd.1:38
There are women too, but many more men.1:46
If the President wants to go fishing or horse riding, the the Secret Service agents will have to learn enough about the activity to accompany him.1:50
Their training as agents takes place at a training centre in a little town called Beltsville, Maryland.2:03
All the prospective agents are carefully selected.2:11
The actual training includes learning to shoot pistols, rifles and how to drive at high speeds and in minimum space.2:16
Agents always examine the area of a proposed presidential visit.2:27
In fact, they can veto a visit if they consider it unsafe.2:32
Then they decide what equipment and manpower will be needed.2:39
The team also produces details of escape routes and plans for emergency evacuation.2:44
In June 1992, for example, when a problem arose on President Bush's trip to Panama city, he and Mrs. Bush escaped in an armoured limousine which had been parked in a side street.2:53
Nowadays there is a large number of people protected by the Secret Service.3:08
The President and Vice President and their families, former Presidents, their wives and children up to the age of 16.3:14
Visiting heads of state and spouses and other important foreign visitors and US representatives on special missions abroad.3:23
The Secret Service budget is about $500 million.3:33
The Secret Service does, of course, keep very quiet about its operations, but it is of great interest to the general public.3:40
That is why there are so many books and films about secret agents.3:49
Film companies often employ real agents as advisors so that the film should be true to life.3:55
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