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.
Secret Service protection. Former presidents were entitled from 1965 to 1996 to lifetime Secret Service protection, for themselves, spouses, and children under 16. A 1994 statute, (Pub.L. 103â329), limited post-presidential protection to ten years for presidents inaugurated after January 1, 1997.