Too High or Too Low. A basic purpose of asking applicants for salary requirements is to use the response as part of the initial screening process.
So, who else do they protect? By law, the Secret Service protects the president and his family, the vice president and her family, the president-elect and his family and the vice president-elect and her family. Former presidents and their spouses also get lifetime protection. A spouse will lose a Secret Service detail if he or she gets remarried.
Under a new law signed today by President Obama, all former U.S. presidents and first ladies will receive lifetime Secret Service protection. The measure also authorizes protection for the children of former presidents until they are 16 years old. 1  Bush daughters kept Secret Service protection.