Harry Truman: General
Secret Service agents may not always support presidents. It wasn’t until the 33rd U.S., Harry Truman. President, taking office as the practice of the Secret Service began. And the “General” moniker was assigned to him, becoming the first president ever to earn a code name for the Secret Service. Nobody is totally sure how and why the name was given to Truman. In World War I, he was only a captain when he was in the army and was never a general. Historian Michael Beschloss told NPR, “Maybe this is his Walter Mitty fantasy that he might’ve been a general.”
Harry Truman: General
Bernie Sanders: Intrepid
It turns out that nobody has to be elected president to get their own Secret Service code name. If a candidate for president gets that far in the electoral cycle or crowds get large enough just to safeguard the Secret Service, agents are assigned once the primary election season rolls around. This is what has happened to Bernie Sanders. During his presidential run in 2020, Sanders reportedly refused protection. But during the 2016 election, a leak revealed Sanders’s code name for the Secret Service was Intrepid. Jokingly, Donald Trump said he picked ‘Humble’ when asked what his own nickname would be.
Bernie Sanders: Intrepid