(July 24, 2022 at 8:36 am)Angrboda Wrote: The paperwork to create the Secret Service was on Abraham Lincoln’s desk, unsigned, the night he went with his wife to Ford’s Theater to see Our American Cousin.
More promptness would not have helped him. The secret service as first formed in 1865 was the anti-counterfeit arm of department of treasury. It was not tasked with presidential protection until the 20th century.