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Driving Mr. Gardiner

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January 2009

by Jerry McCoy

The very idea of this scenario taking place is absurd. 
Jill Biden, wife of Vice President Joseph Biden Jr., phones her husband's Secret Service detail five days after the inauguration and asks for a driver to come to Number One Observatory Circle to pick up her husband.  A lone driver arrives.  Vice President Biden tells the driver that he'll not need his services because he wants to take the car out on his own, but that he'll be happy to first drive the agent back to his  home.

Fifty-five years ago, back in the 20th Century when the world was different, a similar event occurred when recently inaugurated Vice President Richard M. Nixon chauffeured his driver back to his home in Silver Spring!

Jerry McCoy is founder and president of the Silver Spring Historical Society, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to create and promote awareness and appreciation of downtown Silver Spring's heritage through sponsorship of educational activities and the preservation and protection of historical sites, structures, artifacts and archives.

Jerry may be reached at sshistory@yahoo.com or 301-537-1253. The society's web site is sshistory.org

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