Can a former president refuse Secret Service protection?

Secret Service protection can only be refused by former presidents and/or their spouses. Richard Nixon is the only former president to relinquish secret service protection (1985). Current law provides for lifetime protection of former presidents and their spouses. read more

Former Presidents of the United States received lifetime protection from the Secret Service after President Barack Obama signed a new law 2013. The law restored lifetime protection from the Secret Service that had been limited to 10 years in a bill signed in 1997 by President Bill Clinton. read more