Secret Service handles trick-or-treat duty in Chappaqua
By Jim Fitzgerald, Associated Press, 11/01/00
CHAPPAQUA, N.Y. -- Secret Service agents armed with M&Ms and Snickers fended off Spiderella, Ice Wolf, the Headless Horseman and other young extortionists who besieged the home of President and Hillary Rodham Clintons on Tuesday with cries of "Trick or treat, Hillary!"
One agent became suspicious of a 16-year-old in a cow suit, but otherwise Halloween started off smoothly on Old House Lane in Chappaqua.
Neither the first lady nor the president was home when costumed candy-seekers began arriving in late afternoon; both were away campaigning. Instead, Secret Service agents at the gate handled the customary duties.
"That's from the first family, not from us," one of the agents said as he offered candy to Maggie Goldberg, Danielle Cohen and Sika Gasinu, all 10 and from Ardsley.
Maggie's father, Mark Goldberg, said his daughter "has been looking forward to this since the Clintons moved in" in January.
The agents turned away the two first trick-or-treaters: Will Adams, 16, in a black-and-white cow suit, and Joey Rubin, 17, in devil horns, said they had driven 30 minutes from Yorktown to knock on the first family's door. The agent who turned them away later said he thought the teens were too old to be trick-or-treating.
