OKLAHOMA CITY: AFTER THE BOMB : Clinton Eulogizes Ex-Bodyguard
A somber President Clinton attended the funeral Wednesday of a Secret Service agent who was killed in the bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building last week, only seven months after leaving Clinton’s White House security detail.
“I come here today to express the gratitude of the United States of America . . . but also the gratitude of my family for his services,” Clinton said in a brief eulogy at the funeral Mass for Alan G. Whicher in suburban Rockville, Md.
“He was the kind of man every parent wants his or her son to be, the kind of friend every wife hopes to have in a husband, the kind of father every child deserves,” the President said.
Whicher, 40, served for about four years in the White House, guarding then-President George Bush and his family before the Clintons arrived in 1993.
He was promoted last October to assistant special agent in charge of the Secret Service field office in Oklahoma City--a job that relatives said seemed safer than guarding the President.
He is survived by his wife, Pamela Sue Whicher, and three children.
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