Former presidents have to give up rides on Air Force One. But now they don't have to give up being shadowed by the armed-and-earpieced bodyguards of the Secret Service.

President Barack Obama on Thursday signed into a law a measure giving him, George W. Bush and future former presidents and their spouses lifetime Secret Service protection, the White House announced.

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Wait a minute.................my memory is fuzzy, but I thought Clinton got lifetime SS protection, and that ended with Bush 43.

So that would mean that Obama is just reinstating what Clinton had, and adding Bush for whatever reason.

I remember that Clinton got protection that ended for Bush, but I can't remember the details.