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Secret Service code name

{{Short description|Names given to persons whom the US Secret Service protects}}

{{Use mdy dates |date=January 2021}}

File:Jfk-appleton.jpg, codename "Lancer" with First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, codename "Lace"]]

The United States Secret Service uses code names for U.S. presidents, first ladies, and other prominent persons and locations.{{Cite web |url=http://www.nps.gov/archive/eise/secret16.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070118215333/http://www.nps.gov/archive/eise/secret16.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 18, 2007 |title=Junior Secret Service Program: Assignment 7. Code Names |publisher=National Park Service |access-date=2007-08-18}} The use of such names was originally for security purposes and dates to a time when sensitive electronic communications were not routinely encrypted; today, the names simply serve for purposes of brevity, clarity, and tradition.{{cite news |url=http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/09/16/earlyshow/main4452073.shtml?|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080919214445/http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/09/16/earlyshow/main4452073.shtml|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 19, 2008|work=RSSattr=Politics_4452073 |title=Candidate Code Names Secret Service Monikers Used on the Campaign Trail |publisher=CBS News |date=2008-09-16|access-date= 2008-11-12}}{{cite web |url=http://www.eurweb.com/story/eur48530.cfm |title=Obama's Secret Service Code Name Revealed |publisher=Eurweb |date=2008-09-16 |access-date=2008-11-12 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090107194453/http://www.eurweb.com/story/eur48530.cfm |archive-date=2009-01-07}} The Secret Service does not choose these names, however. The White House Communications Agency maintains a list that candidates choose from, often choosing ones that resonate with them personally.{{Cite news |last=Huppke |first=Rex W. |date=2008-11-10 |title='Renegade' joins 'Twinkle,' 'Rawhide,' 'Lancer' on list of Secret Service code names |url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-secret-service-code-names-obama,0,2687400.story |work=Chicago Tribune |access-date=2008-11-12}}

According to an established protocol, good codewords are unambiguous words that can be easily pronounced and readily understood by those who transmit and receive voice messages by radio or telephone regardless of their native language. Traditionally, all family members' code names start with the same letter.

The codenames change over time for security purposes, but are often publicly known. For security, codenames are generally picked from a list of such 'good' words, but avoiding the use of common words which could likely be intended to mean their normal definitions.

Presidents and their families

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  • Woodrow Wilson
  • Edith Wilson – Grandma{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wQ8M-AWidAUC&pg=PA72 |title=One Nation Under Sex: How the Private Lives of Presidents, First Ladies and Their Lovers Changed the Course of American History |isbn=9780230120358 |last1=Flynt |first1=Larry |author-link=Larry Flynt |first2=David |last2=Eisenbach |date=26 April 2011 |publisher=Macmillan + ORM }}
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • Eleanor Roosevelt – Rover{{cite web|title=(PBS) FDR transcript|website=PBS |url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/transcript/fdr-transcript/|archive-url=https://archive.today/20150215191527/http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/transcript/fdr-transcript/|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 15, 2015|quote=Eleanor Roosevelt hurled herself into the war effort with all the energy that she had brought to the New Deal. During the course of the war, she traveled the world, visiting American soldiers everywhere. The Secret Service gave her the code name "Rover."}}
  • Harry S. Truman – General or Supervise{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wAkPzAdYQXsC&pg=PA160 |pages=160–166 |title=The Secret Service of Alan Kahn |first=Steven |last=Scher |date=5 February 2010 |publisher=Xlibris Corporation |isbn=9781450026413 }}{{cite book|title=In the President's Secret Service: Behind the Scenes with Agents in the Line of Fire and the Presidents They Protect|year=2009|publisher=Crown Publishing Group|last=Kessler|first=Ronald|isbn=9780307461353|url=https://archive.org/details/inpresidentssecr00kess|url-access=registration}}
  • Bess Truman – Sunnyside
  • Dwight D. Eisenhower – Scorecard or Providence
  • Mamie Eisenhower – Springtime
  • David Eisenhower – Sahara
  • John F. Kennedy – Lancer
  • Jacqueline Kennedy – Lace{{cite book |last=Taraborrelli |first=Randy J. |title=Jackie, Ethel, Joan: The Women of Camelot |access-date=2007-02-26 |year=2000 |publisher=Warner Books |isbn=0-446-52426-3 |page=15 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hs-cRaEA2xkC}}
  • Caroline Kennedy – Lyric{{cite book|last=Walsh|first=Kenneth T.|title=Air Force One: A History of the Presidents and Their Planes|publisher=Hyperion|year=2003|page=[https://archive.org/details/airforceonehisto00wals/page/227 227]|chapter=Appendix|isbn=1-4013-0004-9|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/airforceonehisto00wals/page/227}}
  • John F. Kennedy Jr. – Lark{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/jfkjr/stories/icon071899.htm|title= JFK Jr.: As Child and Man, America's Crown Prince|newspaper=Washington Post|date=1999-07-18|access-date= 2008-11-18}}
  • Rose Kennedy – Coppertone
  • Ethel Kennedy – Sundance
  • Lyndon B. Johnson – Volunteer
  • Lady Bird Johnson – Victoria{{Cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=JTZgAAAAIBAJ&sjid=z28NAAAAIBAJ&pg=4887,2182479|title=Saskatoon Star-Phoenix - Google News Archive Search|website=news.google.com|access-date=July 14, 2024}}
  • Lynda Bird Johnson – Velvet{{Cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=AlQxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=QREEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5539,3833152|title=Lynda Out of the Woods|access-date=July 14, 2024}}
  • Luci Baines Johnson – Venus
  • Richard Nixon – Searchlight{{cite book|title=China Calls: Paving the Way for Nixon's Historic Journey to China|author=Anne Collins Walker|year=2012|publisher=Madison Books |isbn=978-1568332666|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gbP4LoHgq10C}}
  • Pat Nixon – Starlight
  • Patricia Nixon Cox – Sugarfoot{{Cite web|url=https://guestofaguest.com/things-we-love/the-first-daughters-club|title=The First Daughters Club: Life After The White House|website=Guest of a Guest|access-date=July 14, 2024}}
  • Edward F. Cox – Seminole
  • Julie Nixon Eisenhower – Sunbonnet
  • Gerald Ford – Passkey or Pass Key
  • Betty Ford – Pinafore{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=VFRNAAAAIBAJ&pg=6919,5222063 |title=Mrs Ford tells story different than Ron Nessen |newspaper=Lakeland Ledger |date=May 18, 1978 }}
  • Susan Ford – Panda{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=V9ZgAAAAIBAJ&pg=961,99151 |date=August 16, 1975 |newspaper=The StarPhoenix |title=Susan Ford serious about photography job }}
  • Michael Ford – Professor
  • Jack Ford – Packman
  • Jimmy Carter – Dasher which was changed{{Cite book |last=Bird |first=Kai |year=2021 |title=The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter |location=New York |publisher=Crown |isbn=9780451495235 |page=156}} Citing {{Cite book |title=Unpublished diary |last=Kraft |first=Tim |date=January 21, 1977 |at=Diary folder Kraft papers, Kai Bird}} to Deacon or Lock Master
  • Rosalynn Carter – Lotus Petal or Dancer
  • Amy Carter – Dynamo{{cite book|last=Watson|first=Robert P|title=Life in the White House: A Social History of the First Family and the President's House |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8e20o_p6cwgC&pg=PA111 |publisher=SUNY Press|year=2004|page=111|isbn=9780791485071}}
  • Chip Carter – Diamond
  • Jack Carter – Derby
  • Jeff Carter – Deckhand
  • Ronald Reagan – Rawhide{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/us_elections_2008/7726453.stm|title='Secret' Obama code name revealed |date=13 November 2008|publisher=BBC}}
  • Nancy Reagan – Rainbow
  • Maureen Reagan – Rhyme, Rosebud{{cite book|last=Reagan|first=Maureen |title=First Father, First Daughter|date=September 2001 |publisher=Little, Brown and Company|page=329|isbn=0-316-73636-8}}
  • Michael Reagan – Riddler
  • Patti Davis – Ribbon
  • Ron Reagan – Reliant
  • Doria Reagan – Radiant
  • George H. W. Bush – Timberwolf
  • Barbara Bush – Snowbank{{cite book|last=Sawler|first=Harvey |title=Saving Mrs. Kennedy |year=2004 |publisher=General Store Publishing House|page=73|isbn=1-897113-10-2}} or Tranquility
  • Marvin Bush – Tuner
  • Neil Bush – Trapline
  • Jeb Bush – Tripper
  • Dorothy Bush – Tiller
  • Bill Clinton – Eagle
  • Hillary Clinton – Evergreen
  • Chelsea Clinton – Energy
  • Roger Clinton Jr. - no code name, press claimed was Headache Watson, Robert. "Life in the White House: A Social History of the First Family and The President's House". State University of New York Press, 2004, p. 125.
  • George W. Bush – Tumbler,{{cite news|url=http://mnweekly.ru/world/20081114/55356806.html |title=Obama becomes 'Renegade' on U.S. secret service list |work=Moscow News №45 2008 |publisher=Moscow News |access-date=2008-11-14 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081225061756/http://www.mnweekly.ru/world/20081114/55356806.html |archive-date=December 25, 2008 }} later Trailblazer
  • Laura Bush – Tempo
  • Barbara Bush – Turquoise{{cite book|last=Woodward|first=Bob |title=Bush at War: Inside the Bush White House|url=https://archive.org/details/bushatwar00wood|url-access=registration|publisher=Simon and Schuster|year=2002|isbn=978-0-7432-0473-6}}
  • Jenna Bush – Twinkle
  • Barack Obama – Renegade
  • Michelle Obama – Renaissance{{cite news |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601070&sid=ajoVQoPnNSq0&refer=home |title=Bloomberg Politics |access-date=2008-03-11 |date=2008-03-11}}
  • Malia Obama – Radiance{{cite news|url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-obama_code_names_bdnov09,0,7865884.story|title=First-family-to-be given code names|work=Chicago Tribune|date=2008-11-09|access-date=2008-11-09}}
  • Sasha Obama – Rosebud
  • Marian Shields Robinson – Raindance{{cite book|title=Becoming|last=Obama|first=Michelle|year=2018|publisher=Crown |isbn=978-1524763152|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YbtNDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA286}}
  • Donald Trump – Mogul{{cite news |url=https://www.foxnews.com/politics/just-call-him-mogul-trump-getting-secret-service-code-name |date=November 10, 2015 |first=Ed |last=Henry |title=Just call him 'Mogul' – Trump getting Secret Service code name |work=Fox News }}{{cite news |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2016/07/27/politics/donald-trump-mike-pence-secret-service-codenames/ |title=Here are the Secret Service codenames for Trump, Pence |work=CNN |date=2016-07-27 |access-date=2021-01-28 }}
  • Melania Trump – Muse
  • Donald Trump Jr. – Mountaineer{{Cite web|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trumps-eldest-children-handling-white-house-transition/story?id=44897926|title=How Trump's Eldest Children Have Been Handling the WH Transition|date=2017-01-20|website=ABC News|access-date=2017-01-20}}
  • Ivanka Trump – Marvel{{cite web|url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kamala-harris-secret-service-code-name_n_5f3b992bc5b61100c3ac260f|title=Kamala Harris Secret Service Code Name Revealed|date=2020-08-18|website=Huffington Post}}
  • Eric Trump – Marksman
  • Jared Kushner – Mechanic{{cite news |url=https://qz.com/1560374/the-trump-familys-secret-service-code-names/ |title=The Trump family's Secret Service code names |work=qz.com }}
  • Joe Biden – Celtic{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/deadlineusa/2008/sep/12/sarahpalin.uselections2008 |title=What's in a (Secret Service code) name|access-date=2008-09-14 |work=The Guardian |location=London |first=Elana |last=Schor |date=2008-09-12}}
  • Jill Biden – Capri
  • Hunter Biden – Captain{{cite news |url=https://www.newsweek.com/secret-service-speaks-out-hunter-biden-jail-sentence-1912507 |title=Secret Service Speaks Out About Hunter Biden Jail Sentence name|access-date=2024-06-19 |work=Newsweek |first=Katherine |last=Fung |date=2024-06-13}}

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Vice presidents and their families

File:ClintonSenate swearing in (1).jpg, codename "Eagle"; Chelsea Clinton, codename "Energy"; Senator Hillary Clinton, codename "Evergreen"; Vice President Al Gore, codename "Sundance".]]

  • Al Gore – Sundance{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/16/AR2007061601079.html?hpid=topnews |title='Renegade' Joins Race For White House: Obama Is Given Code Name by Secret Service |newspaper=Washington Post |access-date=2007-06-16 |first=Anne E. |last=Kornblut |date=2007-06-17}} or Sawhorse
  • Tipper Gore – Skylark{{cite news|title=What's In A Code Name? It's Not Much Of A Secret |url=https://www.orlandosentinel.com/1993/07/17/whats-in-a-code-name-its-not-much-of-a-secret/ |access-date=January 21, 2013 |newspaper=Orlando Sentinel |date=July 17, 1993 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141018121657/http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1993-07-17/news/9307172013_1_tipper-gore-al-gore-vice-president-al |archive-date= 2014-10-18 |url-status=live}}
  • Karenna Gore – Smurfette{{cite web |url=http://www.slate.com/id/3803/entry/24342/ |title=Part 3 – By Karenna Gore |access-date=11 November 2008 |work=Slate |date=1997-01-21}}
  • Kristin Gore – Silhouette
  • Sarah Gore – Screwdriver
  • Albert Gore III – Shortstop
  • Dick Cheney – Angler
  • Lynne Cheney – Author{{cite news |last=Keyes |first=Alexa |title=Top Not-So- Secret Service Codenames |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/top-secret-service-codenames/story?id=15962814#all |access-date=January 21, 2013 |work=ABC News|date=March 21, 2012}}
  • Elizabeth Cheney – Apollo{{cite book|author=William M. Arkin|title=American Coup: How a Terrified Government Is Destroying the Constitution|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gQg1AQAAQBAJ&pg=PT135 |year= 2013|publisher=Little, Brown|isbn=978-0-316-25125-9|page=135}}
  • Mary Cheney – Alpine
  • Mike Pence – Hoosier
  • Karen Pence – Hummingbird
  • Kamala Harris – Pioneer{{Cite news |last=Pengelly |first=Martin |date=2020-08-18 |title=Kamala Harris reportedly chooses apt Secret Service code name: Pioneer |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/18/kamala-harris-secret-service-code-name |access-date=2024-07-16 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}
  • JD Vance – Bobcat{{cite news |date=2024-07-26 |title=JD Vance gets Secret Service code name 'Bobcat,' joins 'Mogul' in bid to take White House |url=https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/jd-vances-secret-service-code-name-unveiled-mogul-bid-white-house |access-date=2024-07-26 |publisher=Fox News}}

Political candidates and their spouses

U.S. Secret Service codenames are often given to high-profile political candidates (such as presidential and vice presidential candidates), and their respective families and spouses who are assigned U.S. Secret Service protection. These codenames often differ from those held if they are elected or those from prior periods if they held positions needing codenames.

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=1968=

=1972=

  • George McGovern – Redwood{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1299&dat=19721102&id=KtpHAAAAIBAJ&pg=6348,2070915&hl=en|newspaper=The Village Voice|date=November 2, 1972|title=The last days of George McGovern?}}

=1976=

  • Jimmy Carter – Dasher or Deacon[https://www.proquest.com/docview/512041127 Carter character and career analyzed anew]
  • Bob Dole – Ramrod{{Cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=MTdBAAAAIBAJ&sjid=w6gMAAAAIBAJ&pg=2456,1068567|title=Harlan Daily Enterprise - Google News Archive Search|website=news.google.com|access-date=July 14, 2024}}{{Cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=BXJAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=9lYMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1083,2244368|title=Daily Union - Google News Archive Search|website=news.google.com|access-date=July 14, 2024}}
  • Elizabeth Dole – Rainbow
  • Morris Udall – Dashboard{{Cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Sk9KAAAAIBAJ&sjid=zJMMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1985,5288309|title=The Telegraph - Google News Archive Search|website=news.google.com|access-date=July 14, 2024}}

=1980=

  • John B. Anderson – Miracle, Starburst or Stardust
  • Keke Anderson – Scarlet{{Cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=5DxUAAAAIBAJ&sjid=s40DAAAAIBAJ|title=Keke Anderson: I'm a mother, not a fighter Boca Raton News – Oct 16, 1980|access-date=July 14, 2024}}
  • George H. W. Bush – Sheepskin (During 1980 Campaign) {{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=a1tOAAAAIBAJ&sjid=OvkDAAAAIBAJ |title=Texas Next: Can Carter win there? |work=Spokane Daily Chronicle |date=April 28, 1980 }}
  • Phil Crane – Swordfish
  • Ted Kennedy – Sunburn{{cite magazine |url=https://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1860482_1860481_2123645,00.html |title=11 Great Secret Service Code Names |magazine=Time |access-date=January 28, 2021 }}

=1984=

  • Geraldine Ferraro – Duster{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=h8kfAAAAIBAJ&pg=3836,675481 |title=Duster: Women can do anything |work=The Southeast Missourian |date=November 5, 1984 }}
  • John Zaccaro – N/A (Declined Secret Service Protection){{cite news |url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1984/07/19/Personality-SpotlightNEWLNJohn-Zaccaro-Husband-of-Geraldine-Ferraro/3103459057600/ |title=Personality Spotlight:John Zaccaro: Husband of Geraldine Ferraro |date=July 19, 1984 |work=UPI }}
  • John Glenn – Iron{{Cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=GF4_AAAAIBAJ&sjid=ZlMMAAAAIBAJ&pg=5744,2077444|title=The Windsor Star - Google News Archive Search|website=news.google.com|access-date=July 14, 2024}}
  • Jesse Jackson – Thunder{{Cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=i6ceAAAAIBAJ&pg=3520,3228619|title=Herald-Journal - Google News Archive Search|website=news.google.com|access-date=July 14, 2024}}
  • Walter Mondale – Dragon

=1988=

  • Lloyd Bentsen – Parthenon
  • Michael Dukakis – Peso
  • Kitty Dukakis – Panda
  • Jesse Jackson – Pontiac
  • Gary Hart – Redwood
  • Paul Simon – Scarlett{{Cite web |url=http://www.booknotes.org/Watch/8465-1/Jeanne+Simon.aspx |title=Codename: Scarlett |access-date=July 29, 2016 |archive-date=January 7, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130107043352/http://www.booknotes.org/Watch/8465-1/Jeanne+Simon.aspx |url-status=dead }}

=1996=

  • Bob Dole – Patriot{{cite web |title=High Season For the Secret Service (Published 1996) |website=The New York Times |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200930083028/https://www.nytimes.com/1996/10/27/magazine/high-season-for-the-secret-service.html |archive-date=2020-09-30 |url-status=live |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/10/27/magazine/high-season-for-the-secret-service.html}}
  • Elizabeth Dole – Pioneer
  • Jack Kemp – Champion
  • Joanne Kemp – Cornerstone{{cite web |title=ON THE SIDELINES |website=Chicago Tribune |date=September 29, 1996 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180812110449/https://articles.chicagotribune.com/1996-09-29/features/9609290282_1_joanne-kemp-jack-kemp-bob-dole |archive-date=August 12, 2018 |url-status=live |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1996/09/29/on-the-sidelines-2/}}

=2000=

  • Joe Lieberman – Laser[https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/07/28/here-are-the-2016-candidates-secret-service-code-names-and-your-own/ The Fix-Here are the 2016 candidates’ Secret Service code names — and your own]{{Cite web|url=https://www.courant.com/2001/06/28/lieberman-gets-dc-dough/|title=Lieberman Gets D.c. Dough|date=June 28, 2001 |access-date=July 14, 2024}}
  • Hadassah Lieberman – Liberty{{Cite web|url=https://www.courant.com/2000/11/12/aboard-the-estrogen-express/|title=Aboard The Estrogen Express|date=November 12, 2000 |access-date=July 14, 2024}}

=2004=

  • John Kerry – Minuteman
  • Teresa Heinz Kerry – Mahogany{{cite news |url=http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0407/29/lol.02.html |title=CNN Transcript, Aired July 29, 2004 |access-date=2008-03-10}}
  • John Edwards – Speedway

=2008=

  • John McCain – Phoenix{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/10/AR2008051002721.html |title='Phoenix' and 'Parasol' |access-date=2008-05-22 |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=2008-05-11}}
  • Cindy McCain – Parasol
  • Meghan McCain – Peter Sellers (Peter){{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/McCainBlogette/status/3578405073190912 |title=Twitter / McCainBlogette: my dad was Phoenix, mom Parasol |publisher=Twitter.com |access-date=2012-11-16}}
  • John Sidney McCain IV – Popeye
  • Bridget McCain – Pebbles
  • Sarah Palin – Denali{{cite news |url=http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/09/10/palin_code_name_denali.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120405184821/http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/09/10/palin_code_name_denali.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=April 5, 2012 |title=Palin Code Name: 'Denali'|access-date= 2008-09-14 |newspaper=The Washington Post}}
  • Todd Palin – Driller

= 2012 =

  • Mitt Romney – Javelin{{cite web|last=Ambinder |first=Marc |url=https://www.gq.com/news-politics/blogs/death-race/2012/03/exclusive-gq-reveals-romneys-and-santorums-secret-service-code-names.html |title=Exclusive: GQ Reveals Romney's and Santorum's Secret Service Code Names |work=GQ |date=2012-03-19 |access-date=2012-11-16}}
  • Ann Romney – Jockey{{cite web|last=Ambinder |first=Marc |url=https://www.gq.com/news-politics/blogs/death-race/2012/11/how-the-secret-service-said-goodbye-to-mitt-romney.html |title=How the Secret Service Said Goodbye to Mitt Romney |work=GQ |date=2012-11-08 |access-date=2012-11-16}}
  • Rick Santorum – Petrus
  • Newt Gingrich – T-Rex[https://web.archive.org/web/20120502195631/http://video.msnbc.msn.com/martin-bashir/47209436#47209436 Martin Bashir Aired on April 27, 2012]
  • Paul Ryan – Bowhunter{{cite web|last=Ambinder |first=Marc |url=https://www.gq.com/news-politics/blogs/death-race/2012/09/exclusive-gq-reveals-paul-ryans-secret-service-code-name.html |title=Exclusive: GQ Reveals Paul Ryan's Secret Service Code Name! |work=GQ |date=2012-09-04 |access-date=2012-11-16}}
  • Janna Ryan – Buttercup

=2016=

  • Ben Carson – Eli
  • Tim Kaine – Daredevil
  • Anne Holton – Dogwood{{Cite web|url=https://thetab.com/us/princeton/2017/06/04/anne-holton-80-talks-failure-hope-humility-princeton-commmencement-5093|title=Anne Holton '80 talks failure, hope and humility at Princeton {{as written|comm|mencement [sic]}}|date=June 4, 2017|website=Princeton University|access-date=July 14, 2024}}
  • Bernie Sanders – Intrepid{{Cite news|url=https://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/269072-sanderss-secret-service-code-name-revealed/|title=Sanders's Secret Service code name revealed|work=The Hill| access-date=July 14, 2024}}

=2020=

  • Bernie Sanders – Intrepid
  • Kamala Harris – Pioneer{{cite news|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2020/08/17/politics/kamala-harris-secret-service-code-name-pioneer/index.html|title=First on CNN: Kamala Harris chooses 'Pioneer' as her Secret Service code name|publisher=CNN|date=August 17, 2020}}

=2024=

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Government officials

  • Obama Administration
  • Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel – Black Hawk{{Cite web|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2009/05/revealed-rahm-emanuels-secret-service-code-name/17519/|title=Revealed: Rahm Emanuel's Secret Service Code Name|first=Marc|last=Ambinder|website=The Atlantic |date=May 14, 2009|access-date=July 14, 2024}}
  • Tim Geithner – Fencing Master (generic codename for Secretary of the Treasury){{Cite web|url=http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0310/34164.html|title=Finding the inner Geithner - POLITICO|website=Politico |date=March 10, 2010 |access-date=July 14, 2024}}
  • First Trump administration
  • Senior Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway – Blueberry{{Cite web|url=http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/03/kellyanne-conway-trumps-first-lady.html|title = Kellyanne Conway is the Real First Lady of Trump's America|date = March 18, 2017}}

Other individuals

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  • Israel
  • Prime Minister Menachem Begin – Cedar
  • Hasia Begin Milo – Crystal
  • Commonwealth realms
  • Queen Elizabeth II – Kittyhawk,{{cite book |last=Petro |first=Joseph |author2=Jeffrey Robinson |title=Standing Next to History: An Agent's Life Inside the Secret Service |publisher=Macmillan |year=2005 |page=[https://archive.org/details/standingnexttohi00petr/page/52 52] |isbn=0-312-33221-1 |url=https://archive.org/details/standingnexttohi00petr/page/52 }} Redfern{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2008/nov/14/barack-obama-renegade |title=The secret service name game: Barack Obama is codenamed 'Renegade' – but what secret service names would you choose for our UK VIPs|work=Guardian UK|publisher=Guardian News and Media Limited 2008 |access-date=2010-05-26 |location=London |date=2008-11-14 |first=Leo |last=Hickman}}
  • King Charles III – Principal or Unicorn
  • United States
  • Senator Howard Baker (R-Tennessee) – Snapshot{{Cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2199&dat=19891224&id=rtsxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=U-UFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4256,3349033|title=Lawrence Journal-World - Google News Archive Search|website=news.google.com|access-date=July 14, 2024}}
  • Actor Antonio Banderas – Zorro{{Cite web |title=Top Not-So- Secret Service Codenames |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/top-secret-service-codenames/story?id=15962814 |access-date=2023-05-06 |website=ABC News |language=en}}
  • Congressman and Speaker of the House Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill – Flag Day{{cite book|title=The flying White House: the story of Air Force One|year=1979|publisher=Bantam Books|author1=Jerald F. TerHorst|author2=Ralph Albertazzie|isbn=9780698109308|url=https://archive.org/details/flyingwhitehouse00ter_evv|url-access=registration}}
  • Florida banker and businessman, confidant of President Nixon, Bebe Rebozo – Christopher
  • Social secretary to First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, and mistress to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd – Mrs. Johnson{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-xpm-2012-may-03-la-oe-wallance-secret-service-20120503-story.html|title=Sex and the Secret Service|first=Gregory J.|last=Wallance|date=May 3, 2012|website=Los Angeles Times|access-date=July 14, 2024}}
  • Singer and actor Frank Sinatra – Napoleon{{cite book|last=Loizeau |first=Pierre-Marie|title=Nancy Reagan: The Woman Behind the Man|publisher=Nova Publishers|year=2004|page=91|isbn=1-59033-759-X}}
  • Senator Strom Thurmond (R-South Carolina) – Footprint
  • Vatican
  • Pope John Paul II – Halo

Locations, objects, places and parts of Secret Service

U.S. Secret Service codenames are not only given to people; they are often given to places, locations and even objects, such as aircraft like Air Force One, and vehicles such as the Presidential State Car.

In fiction

In popular culture, the practice of assigning codenames is often used to provide additional verisimilitude in fictional works about the executive branch, or high-ranking governmental figures.

  • 1600 Penn
  • First Son Standrich "Skip" Gilchrist Jr. – Meatball{{Cite magazine|url=https://newrepublic.com/article/111790/1600-penn|title="1600 Penn" and the Tedium of the Goofball White House Comedy|magazine=The New Republic |access-date=July 14, 2024|via=The New Republic}}
  • Air Force One
  • President James Marshall – Boy Scout[http://www.awesomefilm.com/script/AirForceOne_TXT.htm Air Force One script]
  • The American President
  • President Andrew Shepherd – Liberty{{Cite web|url=http://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/american_president.html|title=The American President script by Aaron Sorkin|website=www.dailyscript.com|access-date=July 14, 2024}}
  • Chasing Liberty
  • First Daughter Anna Foster – Liberty{{cite video |people=Andy Cadiff (director) |title=Chasing Liberty |medium=Film/DVD |publisher=Warner Brothers |location=Los Angeles |date=2004}}
  • Designated Survivor
  • President Tom Kirkman – Phoenix (formerly Glasses during his time as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development){{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2016/sep/30/designated-survivor-kiefer-sutherland-jack-bauer|title=Designated Survivor: where's Jack Bauer when you need him?|first=Julia|last=Raeside|date=September 30, 2016|access-date=July 14, 2024|newspaper=The Guardian}}
  • First Daughter
  • First Daughter Samantha Mackenzie – Lucky Charm{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0361620/quotes/|title=First Daughter (2004) - Quotes - IMDb|access-date=July 14, 2024|via=www.imdb.com}}
  • First Kid
  • President Paul Davenport – Eagle{{Cite web |url=http://www.prairienet.org/ejahiel/firstkid.htm |title=First Kid review |access-date=2008-11-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080517054131/http://www.prairienet.org/ejahiel/firstkid.htm |archive-date=2008-05-17 |url-status=dead }}
  • First Son Luke Davenport – Prince
  • House of Cards
  • President Frank Underwood – Little John
  • President Claire Underwood – Lone Star
  • In the Line of Fire
  • The President – Traveler{{Cite web|url=http://www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scripts/i/in-the-line-of-fire-script.html|title=In The Line Of Fire Script - transcript from the screenplay and/or Clint Eastwood movie|website=www.script-o-rama.com|access-date=July 14, 2024}}
  • Jericho
  • President Jon Tomarchio – CondorList of jericho episodes#Season 2
  • The Night Agent
  • Maddie Redfield (VP Daughter) – Badger
  • Omar Zadar (PIF leader) – Osprey
  • Paradise
  • President Cal Bradford – Wildcat
  • The Prodigal Daughter
  • President Florentyna Kane – Baroness{{cite book |last=Archer |first=Jeffrey |author-link=Jeffrey Archer |title=The Prodigal Daughter |year=1982 |publisher=St. Martin's Paperbacks |isbn=978-0-312-99714-4 |page=496 |url=https://archive.org/details/prodigaldaughter0000arch |url-access=registration }}
  • Red, White & Royal Blue
  • First Son Alexander Claremont-Diaz – Barracuda
  • First Daughter June Claremont-Diaz – Bluebonnet
  • Prince Henry - Bishop
  • Scandal
  • President Fitzgerald Thomas "Fitz" Grant III – Falcon{{Cite web|url=https://transcripts.foreverdreaming.org/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=37594|title=06x08 - A Stomach For Blood - Transcripts - Forever Dreaming|website=transcripts.foreverdreaming.org|access-date=July 14, 2024}}
  • First Lady Melody Margaret "Mellie" Grant – Foxtail{{Cite web|url=https://www.bustle.com/articles/83338-why-is-mellie-foxtail-on-scandal-this-could-be-mellies-move-to-presidency|title=Why Is Mellie Foxtail On 'Scandal'? This Could Be Mellie's Move To Presidency|date=May 14, 2015|website=Bustle|access-date=July 14, 2024}}
  • White House Chief of Staff Abigail "Abby" Whelan – Firebrand
  • The Sentinel
  • President John Ballentine – Classic{{cite news|first=Eleanor Ringel |last=Gillespie |title='The Sentinel': Smart action, familiar plot |url=http://accessatlanta.com/movies/content/shared/movies/reviews/S/thesentinel/ajc.html |work=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution |publisher=Cox Newspapers |location=Atlanta, Georgia |access-date=2008-07-04 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090219205451/http://accessatlanta.com/movies/content/shared/movies/reviews/S/thesentinel/ajc.html |archive-date=February 19, 2009 }}
  • First Lady Sara Ballentine – Cincinnati
  • Squeeze Me
  • The President – Mastodon{{cite news |url= https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/squeeze-me-proves-that-the-trump-era-is-carl-hiaasens-moment/2020/08/21/51a40838-db07-11ea-b205-ff838e15a9a6_story.html |title= 'Squeeze Me' proves that the Trump era is Carl Hiaasen's moment |newspaper= The Washington Post |access-date=2021-02-12 }}
  • The First Lady – Mockingbird{{cite web |url= https://www.tampabay.com/life-culture/arts/books/2020/08/21/snakes-of-all-kinds-populate-carl-hiaasens-squeeze-me/ |title= Snakes of all kinds populate Carl Hiaasen's 'Squeeze Me' |access-date=2021-02-24 }}
  • Tom Clancy's novels

  • Unnamed President in Clear and Present Danger – Wrangler{{cite book |last=Clancy |first=Thomas |author-link=Tom Clancy |title=Clear and Present Danger |orig-year=1989 |date=August 1990 |edition=Large Print |publisher=Thorndike Press |location=Thorndike, Maine |isbn=0-89621-930-5 |pages=multiple, incl. p. 391 |chapter=12. The Curtain on SHOWBOAT}}
  • President Jack Ryan in Debt of Honor and Executive Orders – Swordsman{{cite book |last=Clancy |first=Thomas |author-link=Tom Clancy |title=Executive Orders |url=https://archive.org/details/executiveorders00clan |url-access=registration |year=1996 |publisher=Putnam |isbn=0-399-14218-5 |pages=multiple}}
  • Dr. Caroline "Cathy" Ryan in Executive Orders – Surgeon{{cite book |last=Clancy |first=Thomas |author-link=Tom Clancy |title=Executive Orders |url=https://archive.org/details/executiveorders00clan |url-access=registration |year=1996 |publisher=Putnam |isbn=0-399-14218-5 |page=[https://archive.org/details/executiveorders00clan/page/212 212]}}
  • Olivia "Sally" Ryan in Executive Orders – Shadow
  • Jack Ryan Jr. in Executive Orders – Shortstop
  • Katie Ryan in Executive Orders – Sandbox
  • Kyle Daniel Ryan in The Bear and the Dragon – Sprite
  • George Winston (Secretary of the Treasury) in Executive Orders – Trader{{cite book |last=Clancy |first=Thomas |author-link=Tom Clancy |title=Executive Orders |url=https://archive.org/details/executiveorders00clan |url-access=registration |year=1996 |publisher=Putnam |isbn=0-399-14218-5 |page=[https://archive.org/details/executiveorders00clan/page/557 557]}}
  • Benjamin Goodley (National Security Advisor) in Executive Orders – Cardsharp{{cite book |last=Clancy |first=Thomas |author-link=Tom Clancy |title=Executive Orders |url=https://archive.org/details/executiveorders00clan |url-access=registration |year=1996 |publisher=Putnam |isbn=0-399-14218-5 |page=[https://archive.org/details/executiveorders00clan/page/527 527]}}
  • Arnold Van Damm (White House Chief of Staff) in Executive Orders and The Bear and the Dragon – Carpenter{{cite book |last=Clancy |first=Thomas |author-link=Tom Clancy |title=Executive Orders |url=https://archive.org/details/executiveorders00clan |url-access=registration |year=1996 |publisher=Putnam |isbn=0-399-14218-5 |page=[https://archive.org/details/executiveorders00clan/page/482 482]}}
  • Callie Weston (Chief Speechwriter) in Executive Orders and The Bear and the Dragon – Calliope

  • Scott Adler (Secretary of State) in Executive Orders and The Bear and the Dragon – Eagle{{cite book |last=Clancy |first=Thomas |author-link=Tom Clancy |title=Executive Orders |url=https://archive.org/details/executiveorders00clan |url-access=registration |year=1996 |publisher=Putnam |isbn=0-399-14218-5 |page=[https://archive.org/details/executiveorders00clan/page/131 131]}}

  • Veep
  • Vice President Selina Meyer – Duchess{{Cite web|url=https://transcripts.foreverdreaming.org/viewtopic.php?t=26813|title=02x09 - Running - Transcripts - Forever Dreaming|website=transcripts.foreverdreaming.org|access-date=January 24, 2025}}
  • The West Wing
  • President Josiah "Jed" Bartlet – Eagle{{cite web |url=http://www.westwingtranscripts.com/search.php?flag=getTranscript&id=2 |title=The West Wing Transcripts – Episode 102 |access-date=2007-08-10}} or Liberty{{cite web|url=http://www.westwingtranscripts.com/search.php?flag=getTranscript&id=12 |title=The West Wing Transcripts – Episode 108|access-date=2008-11-09}}
  • Zoey Bartlet – Bookbag{{cite web |url=http://www.westwingtranscripts.com/search.php?flag=getTranscript&id=99 |title=The West Wing Transcripts – Episode 509 |access-date=2007-05-15}}
  • C. J. Cregg – Flamingo{{cite web |url=http://www.westwingtranscripts.com/search.php?flag=getTranscript&id=10 |title=The West Wing Transcripts – Episode 110 |access-date=2009-01-21}}
  • Sam Seaborn – Princeton
  • Gus Westin (grandson of Jed Bartlet) – Tonka{{cite web |url=http://www.westwingtranscripts.com/search.php?flag=getTranscript&id=99 |title=The West Wing Transcripts – Episode 509 |access-date=2010-09-21}}
  • Arnold Vinick – Big Sur{{cite web |url=http://www.livedash.com/transcript/the_west_wing-(the_mommy_problem)/7242/BRAVOP/Thursday_August_26_2010/423149/ |title=The West Wing, Episode 7.03, LiveDash TV Transcript |access-date=2011-04-15 }}

See also

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