Secret Service Agent (Ret) Clint Hill shares how agents were lodged in FL during Kennedy Admin

[Dennis Donovan]

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Clint Hill ✔ @ClintHill_SS

I have no info re:what the @SecretService pays for hotel rooms these days, but when I used to go to Palm Beach with #JFK and Mrs.Kennedy, all the agents stayed at Woody’s Motel. We paid for the rooms out of our $12 per diem which also had to cover meals & laundry. #PresidentsDay



5:25 PM - Feb 16, 2020

...and I doubt Joe Sr owned the motel.

[UTUSN]

1. Now, public funds pay hundreds of thousands/millions to SHITLER's properties, plus golf

[CaptYossarian]

2. Times really have changed.

$12 today might get you a meatball sub--if you have a coupon.

No wonder they didn't care about that whole Marilyn Monroe thing. They weren't paid enough to care.

[brush]

3. It was the early 60s. They were paid pretty well for those days. Since when were professional...

white men ever underpaid in any era?

[CaptYossarian]

4. True.

My grandfather had a 6th grade education. He ended up living in a gated community (not San Quentin).

[Mr.Bill]

5. My father dropped out of the 9th grade to work the family farm.

In 1943 they made him a flight engineer on a four engine bomber in WWII.

Simpler times. Now they want a college degree to manage a Taco Bell.

[iluvtennis]

6. In 80s I got per diem when travelling for Air Force. We always shopped around for most

economical price for hotels. Also, shopped around for cheaper meals. Reason was because per diem (per day dollar amount) was just tht and you whatever was left over was yours. Used the lfetover to add to household budget as military salaries didn't compare to industry.