"To communicate with people more and more and more about what was there and he used to tell me all the time - and I quote him, 'People protect what they love.'
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As President, I get to meet and work with a lot of extraordinary law enforcement officers every single day, from men and women who protectmeand my family -- the folks in the Secret Service -- to local police who help out on motorcades in events around the country.
We drove past my old high school: there were bars on the windows where there hadn't been before I went to prison, armed uniformed guards out front where be-fore there'd been old-lady hall monitors with whistles, and I imagined that the bars and the guards were there to protect the students from meand not some teenage crazy in a trench coat stuffed with home-made ordnance.
Large sections of the beach are cordoned off to protect these eggs, and it seems to me a testament to how much attitudes have changed toward nature and toward Puerto Rico that guests are happy to be woken up at 2 a.m. to huddle bleary-eyed as inch-long reptiles dig their way out of the sand, slowly loping their way into the water and their new life.