06 October 2012 09:30 | By Tom Phillips
Top 10 weird facts about US Presidents

"Smurfette is on the move"



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The Secret Service's codenames for the president are an endless source of amusement - Ronald Reagan's codename was 'Rawhide', George H. W. Bush's was 'Timberwolf', Bill Clinton's was 'Eagle', George W. Bush's was 'Trailblazer' and Barack Obama's is 'Renegade'.

It's not just the president who gets a codename, though - so does the vice-president, and their family members. This doesn't always work out well for them: Al Gore's daughter Karenna complained that the Secret Service made her choose her own codename without getting much time to think it over. Karenna soon discovered the down side of deciding to be called 'Smurfette' wherever she went.

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