Art Van and Hillary Clinton    8-7-15

It has now been 12 years since I was last employed for Art Van as his bodyguard/driver/boat captain/personal trainer. The most recent picture I saw of my ol' buddy Art does not reveal any of the bulging biceps that we were never able to achieve. For the record, I have never been employed by Hillary Clinton, nor would I accept any form of employment by her if asked. 
I read excerpts of a book by a Secret Service agent that did in fact work for her. It did not make her agents employment sound like a pleasant experience. It sounds like she resented their presence, and often treated them like "the help" when she demanded they schlep her suitcases around on trips. 
Working for Art was actually very tolerable much of the time. I drove brand new Mercedes or BMW's, nice yachts, and flew on a corporate jet (although I would rather not have.) 
I'm sure that somebody like Hillary receives death threats on a daily basis, but Art only received one that I know of...which is part of the reason my services were retained.
And actually, Art received more than just a threat that day. One of his employees brought a gun to his estate and lowered the American flag down from the pole in the back yard. He intended to wrap Art and his wife's bodies in them for transport in a delivery van that was often parked at the estate. While the employee was preparing Art and Mary Ann's burial shroud, his wife called and warned them. The employee had remembered to cut the phone lines, but Art was pretty good with a cell phone. Art called the cops and they dashed to the mansion's safe room, locking themselves in. The cops arrived within seconds and chased down the mischievous employee before he got away.
As Art's bodyguard, would I have taken a bullet for him? Don't be ridiculous! And before you ask, I would certainly NOT take a bullet for Hillary either. 
Unlike Hillary and her Secret Service agents, the relationship I had with Art was very friendly. He told stories. I listened and often laughed. He often talked about his employees and his offspring. I listened and remembered every word of what he said. If we were traveling, I grabbed suitcases out of the trunk eagerly and with gusto. The suitcases were well constructed and expensive. Should another nutcase began shooting at us I might have used one (and its contents) as a partial shield to slow down a bullet until I could pull my own weapon.
Art does not venture to corporate headquarters at all anymore. At 85 years old he is much thinner (and thus presents less of a target!) His 40 year old girlfriend looks like she is propping him up in some of the public photos. I cannot be sure, but I thought I saw the corner of a Depends sticking up out of her purse in one such photo. I hope she is not incontinent....uh.....never mind. To return to the Home Page click here.  To visit Classic Health Institute click here.