McCain will meet with the Secret Service in the coming days.
Senator John McCain will meet with the Secret Service for security protection during the remaining months of his presidential campaign. The Republican nominee has said previously he does not want Secret Service protection, fearing it would interfere with his brand of intimate campaigning with voters, but also has said he'll try to last as long as he can without it.
By: Mary Couchman
Apr 4, 2008, 3:42 PM EDT
Sen. John McCain intends to meet with Secret Service officials in the next several days in preparation for accepting security protection for the final several months of his presidential bid for the White House. McCain campaign aides said they did not know precisely when McCain would agree to accept the private protection. McCain's campaign made the disclosure one day after the formal head of the Secret Service, Mark Sullivan, took the unusual step of discussing the Republican nominee's lack of government security at an open meeting with members of the House Appropriations Committee.
"Statutorily, he is not required to take protection," Sullivan said when asked about McCain's security during a committee hearing on the agency's budget. "As far as an actual request, we have not gotten one. We have no involvement at this point." The Arizona senator has effectively wrapped up the Republican presidential nomination. McCain has said previously he does not want Secret Service protection, fearing it would interfere with his brand of intimate campaigning with voters. "I've never done it. After we won New Hampshire in 2000, they really tried to get us, but we said no," McCain said last November while campaigning in Concord, N.H. "It's an invasion of your ability to have contact with voters." McCain also has said he'll try to last as long as he can without it. Source: NewsOXY.com John McCain Meets With Secret Service
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