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05:38 - "We can't have Russkies in the Secret Service. It wouldn't be secret!"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_Service_codenames
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Wikipedia knows everything. Led there by this Canadian-perspective article about the Obama family's "R"-initialed nicknames, there's a wealth of not-so-secret shorthand names for First Families and other dignitaries when they're being moved around under careful guard.
(As to the "secrecy" of this technique and the lack thereof, Dean Esmay has some thoughts.)
"Rawhide" was a pretty good Reagan codename. "Tumbler" sounds good-naturedly self-deprecating, if it was Bush's own idea (otherwise it may have been turnabout for things like "Turd Blossom", unless they later reclaimed it as a Batman reference).
"Renegade"?
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Brian Tiemann
