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Normally, having just one of these dignitaries at anevent means heightened security. Having all of them atthe inaugural, sitting so closely together, is a securitynightmare.The Secret Service is on high alert. Its job is to protectthe president. The fifty-five-year-old career agent andleader of the service, Chief U. E. Baughman, has been incharge since Truman was president. He believes thatKennedy’s athleticism and fondness for wading intocrowds will make guarding him a challenge unlike anyother in the Service’s history. The lean Baughman, withhis trademark crew cut, almost cleared the inaugural standthree times today out of concern for presidential safety.On one occasion, blue smoke poured from the lecternduring the invocation, and there was fear that it was abomb. Agents rushed to investigate. As it turned out, thesmoke came from the motor that raised and lowered thelectern. Stopping the problem was as simple as turning offthe motor. Now Baughman’s agents scan the crowd,nervous about the close proximity of the vast audience.One well-trained zealot with a pistol could kill the newpresident, two former presidents, and a pair of vice

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