I just found this while looking up something on the Bulletin of Atomic
Scientists website;
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You know what isn't so funny, really, is that George W is seriously
paranoid. If you notice he never appears in crowds, he is never on the
street, he is never seen getting into or out of limos, except behind
awnings. His only appearances are in front of very tightly secured and
very staged audiences and forums. His trip to California must have
driven his security team batty trying to figure out how and where to
show up. He landed on a military base and then took a helicopter to
federally controlled land in Sequoia National Park---which has one
long road in and out. [snip]
Chuck Grimes
========== Could be all that coke. Then again, if those claims are false, he could suffer from agoraphobia. The SS is paid to be paranoid and lots of them are Repugs [I got that little ditty from the head of Reagan's SS team, don't know about turnover of assignments though] so they may be even more careful with one of their own. Also, if they have some discretion over where the media films him from in certain enviro's it may be done to send a message to any would be assassins out there that their security web is as good as bulletproof. Clinton came across as too gregarious to care whether someone was going to take a shot, that must have driven the SS nuts too.
Ian