The assassination attempt on President Reagan revealed that the president was vulnerable.
The president, the vice president, the president-elect, and the vice president-elect are all designated persons for whom the Secret Service is mandated by law to provide protection. The Secret Service was given control over the White House Police Force. Public Law 82-79, passed by Congress, officially authorized the Secret Service to protect the president, members of his immediate family, the president-elect, and the vice president. All former American presidents and first ladies will receive lifetime Secret Service protection under a new law that President Obama signed today. The law also permits protection for former presidents' children up until the age of 16.
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Indian citizens were forced to buy the vital mineral from their British rulers, who, in addition to exercising a monopoly over the manufacture and sale of salt, also charged a heavy salt tax. Although India’s poor suffered most under the tax, all Indians required salt.
