Top 10 Secret Service Code Names

After winning in the Florida primary, news outlets announced GOP candidate Mitt Romney would begin to receive Secret Service protection. Though we don't yet know what the Romney family's code names will be, TIME takes a look back at some of the better Secret Service monikers throughout history.

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For a chief executive undone by the late-night break-in at the Watergate Hotel, and the subsequent coverup, Nixon's Secret Service nickname — a device that reveals all — is deeply ironic.

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