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He called her Mrs. Kennedy. SHE called him Mr. Hill. For four years, from the election of John Fitzgerald Kennedy in November 1960 until following the election of Lyndon Johnson in 1964, Clint Hill was the Secret Service agent assigned to guard the attractive and intensely private Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy. During those four years, he gone from being truly a unwilling guardian to a fiercely dedicated watchdog and, in lots of ways, her closest good friend. Now, looking again 50 years, Clint Hill says his storyline for the very first time, offering a tender, enthralling, and tragic portrayal of how a Top secret Service agent who started out life in a North Dakota orphanage became the most reliable man in the life span of the First Woman who captivated first the nation and then the world. When he was primarily assigned to the new First Woman, Agent Hill envisioned tea parties and gray-haired matrons. But when he achieved her, he was swept up in the whirlwind of her beauty, her elegance, her cleverness, her coy humor, her superb composure, and her amazing spirit. From the start, the work was like no other, and Clint was by her area through the first days of JFK's presidency; the beginning of sons John and Patrick and Patrick's rapid death; Kennedy-family getaways in Hyannis Dock and Palm Beach; Jackie's trips to Europe, Asia, and South America; Jackie's intriguing conferences with men like Aristotle Onassis, Gianni Agnelli, and André Malraux; the dark days of the entire year that adopted the assassination; to the farewell party she threw for Clint when he still left her protective details after four years. All she desired was the thing he could not give her: an exclusive life on her behalf and her children. Filled with memorable details, startling revelations, and gleaming, intimate moments, this is the once-in-a-lifetime storyline of a man doing the most exciting job in the world, with a female all the entire world adored, and the tragedy that finished it all too early - a tragedy that haunted him for 50 years.