THE STORY BEHIND THE STORY : Code Names for U.S. Presidents
Wednesday, March 01, 2023
GLOUCESTER CITY, NJ (CNBNews.net)(February 26, 2023)--The Secret Service has code names for the various people they protect. Listed below in the left column are the names of recent presidents and on the right are code names. Your job is to figure out which code name was given to which president. The answers are at the bottom.
John F. Kennedy Mogul 
Richard Nixon Lancelot
Gerald Ford Celtic
Jimmy Carter Search Light
Ronald Reagan Renegade
George H.W. Bush (father) Passkey
Bill Clinton Eagle
George W. Bush (son) Timberwolf
Barack Obama Trailblazer
Donald Trump Deacon
Joe Biden Rawhide
Bonus Question: Which two presidents in the 20th century were adopted by their step-fathers and changed their last names to their adopted fathers?
Bonus Question: Which two presidents in the 20th century were adopted by their step-fathers and changed their last names to their adopted fathers?
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Answers:
John Kennedy - Lancelot
Richard Nixon - Search Light because of Watergate
Gerald Ford - Pass Key because of pardoning Richard Nixon
Jimmy Carter - Deacon (he was a deacon in his church)
Ronald Reagan - Rawhide (cowboy movies he acted in)
George H.W. Bush - Timber Wolf (biggest of the canine family)
Bill Clinton - Eagle (Boy Scouts)
George W. Bush - Renegade ?
Barack Obama - Trail Blazer ?
Donald Trump - Mogul (business tycoon)
Joe Biden - Celtic (His claim that he has an Irish background)
The two presidents who changed their last names were:
William Jefferson Blyth (Clinton) whose biological father died in a car crash three months before he was born.
Leslie Lynch King, Jr. parents divorced six months after he was born. His biological father was alleged to have physically hurt his mother and threatened to kill his son with a butcher knife. His mother married Gerald R. Ford and the president took his step-father's name.