The Daily Recycler has the very cool video of President Bush rescuing the Secret Service agent.
According to the newspaper story, Chilean security had been giving the Secret Service grief all day.
If I'm understanding the sequence correctly, one agent got roughed up but didn't resist and ended up out by the limo. The other agent raised holy hell, and this is the one the President waded into the fracas to get.
You're not stopping this guy
UPDATE:
Here's another copy with English audio. "You're not stopping me!"
UPDATE II:
The agent's name is Nick Trotta. His old high school has a webpage for him. He is the son of Italian immigrants and very religious. It was a priest who put his name forward to the Secret Service, as he found out later.
It's clear he's everything a Secret Service agent should be. For a while there, I think he was the only protection the President and First Lady had.
Posted by floridacracker at November 21, 2004 07:42 AMthanks for the link -- for some reason the recycler's link worked much better for me than the stuff I was pursuing last nite ...
Fred
Posted by: Fred at November 21, 2004 08:54 AMHow cool! I hadn't even heard of this...! :)
Posted by: pam at November 22, 2004 06:13 PMAnyone want to guess how Kerry would have handled the situation? It's nice to have a president with balls....
Posted by: Lew at November 23, 2004 01:11 AMWho wants to take a bullet for a guy who calls you a son of a bitch?
Posted by: Donnah at November 23, 2004 07:46 AM