His job was to guard the lives of Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin D.
Roosevelt. So, for 29 years, Colonel Edmund W. ("Big Bill") Starling has studied second-floor windows, climbed into attics with a flashlight, intently scanned the faces of milling crowds.
Last week Kentucky's courtly, blue-eyed Colonel Ed, 68, his back still shot gun-straight in a 6-ft.-2-in. frame, his tread still cat-smooth, announced his retirement, effective Nov.1. After nearly three decades on the White House detail, U.S. Secret Service, Colonel Ed was going fishing.
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