There’s an old sketch from MTV’s brilliant The State, where a kid reprimands his obnoxious classmates, saying, “You can’t even joke about it! You just can’t say ‘Gee, wouldn’t it be great if we shot the President,’” which results in a swarm of Secret Service agents flooding the classroom and carrying him away. Well, that isn’t much of an exaggeration.
LIFE Magazine, as it is wont to do, assembled yet another of its utterly interesting photo essays. The topic this time? The Secret Service. Fittingly, a few of the photos profile The Beast, aka the President’s tech-savvy, super-fortified ride.
