Guarding the Presidents Tour, Lafayette Square & White House Neighborhood, DC!!

Attacks on high-profile public figures are much in the news. Both recently and long ago, President's Park has sadly been the site of many such assaults. Take a trip back into the wild history of how top officials have been protected--or not guarded effectively at all.

Where: Meet in front of the historic National Theater, 1321 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC 20004.

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What: Perhaps because of its connections to great power and wealth, the White House, Treasury Building, the former War, Navy, and State Dept. buildings, and Lafayette Square have been witness to two centuries of astonishing, often bloody attacks on top-ranking persons.

We will visit many actual sites of startling history, drawing from the following:
• The bodyguard who saved Lincoln's life, and the wayward cop who failed to save him
• The assassin who stalked President Garfield, in President's Park
• The cunning Mata Hari of the Civil War, who costs thousands of lives
• The near slaying of the Secretary of State
• The latest revelations on attempts to kill President Trump
• Treasury, State Department, and War Department spies
• The 1981 attack on the President at the Washington Hilton
• How a murder unhinged a First Lady
• When a Vice President narrowly avoided assassination
• The graveyards over which Lafayette Square is built
• The assassination attempt on Teddy Roosevelt
• The murder of D.C.'s District Attorney
• The two attempts to kill President Ford
• The tragic death of a noted female artist, and of a valiant Navy hero
• When an invading army almost captured a President and First Lady
• How foreign terrorists almost killed President Truman
• The suspected foreign spy's affair with a President
• The assassination of President Cleveland
• The forgotten Midnight Ride that save future Presidents from the gallows
• How Franklin Roosevelt narrowly escaped two assassination attempts
• The tragic First Lady who saved President's Park
• Conspiracy theories: Fact or fiction?
• The first assassination attempt on a President
• Duels to the death in the Old Republic
And more!!

Who: Your host is a former writer for Jay Leno’s “The Tonight Show”, the author of the book America from A to Z, a former presidential speechwriter, and writer of a book on the history of Lafayette Square:
https://www.amazon.com/White-Houses-Unruly-Neighborhood-Lafayette-ebook/dp/B082ZVDCD7/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1555118270&sr=1-1-catcorr

And his latest, a spy thriller set in Georgetown:
https://www.amazon.com/Femme-Fatalité-Lizzy-Thorne-Novel-ebook/dp/B0F4945MR5/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0

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Nearest metro stations: Farragut North and West
Restaurants nearby for afterwards at the Old Ebbitt Grill and the Hamilton

Questions? Ask here, or at: [[[191.EP.JM.56@proton.me](mailto:191.EP.JM.56@proton.me)](mailto:191.EP.JM.56@proton.me)](http://mailto:191.EP.JM.56@proton.me/), or 7032032670

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