Ben Carson (“Eli”)
There was a time when Ben Carson was pegged to be the person who would head up the Republican party ahead of the 2016 presidential election. As he was a frontrunner next to eventual winner Donald Trump, he also received a code name from the secret service, even though he was the first GOP candidate to have it happen to them. “Eli” was picked because it referred to his graduate status at Yale University, a term that often describes an alumnus from there.
Ben Carson
Ted Kennedy (“Sunburn”)
While it’s preferable to be able to choose your secret service nickname, sometimes an unforeseen event might lead to you earning your nickname without any input on your end. For Ted Kennedy, a long day out in the sun and a subsequent sunburn to end all sunburns led him to his aptly titled code name that has stuck ever since. Apparently, this wasn’t the first time he had forgotten to put on sunscreen, so the code name is not done in bad taste.
Ted Kennedy
