When the president takes a walk

The president of the United States took a walk yesterday.

Count the number of Secret Service agents in this video, released by the White House.

They walked to the Interior Department, then walked back to the White House. Enroute, we learned that the safest place, apparently, for the president to walk is in the middle of the street.

President Barack Obama and White House counselor John Podesta walk down C street NW, accompanied by members of the Secret Service as they head towards the Dept. of Interior, Wednesday, May 21, 2014. Obama and Podesta also walked back to the White House after a signing a proclamation regarding the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

About the blogger

Bob Collins

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Bob Collins retired from Minnesota Public Radio in 2019 after 12 years of writing NewsCut and pointing out to complainants that posts weren’t news stories. A son of Massachusetts, he was a news editor 1992-1998, created the MPR News regional website in 1999, invented the popular Select A Candidate, started several blogs, and every day lamented that his Minnesota Fantasy Legislature project never caught on.