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Turns out Oliver had served two very rough tours in Vietnam.

Loud noises would make him very unhappy.

But when eventually Oliver started to calm down, the Secret Service were like, what are you even doing here?

It was kind of hard for him to answer because it's like he didn't even really know.

It was just like, oh, I don't know.

I was taking a walk.

And I just bumped into this huge crowd of people, asked what was going on.

And people were like, oh, like Gerald Ford is going to be here.

You know, the president is going to be here.

So he said he thought I might as well see him.

And then he was standing there for a couple hours until he saw a flash of metal, realized it was a gun, reacted quickly, instinctively.

And then you guys all pulled me in here.

That's how I came to be here.

So he's questioned for three hours.

He goes home, home to his fourth floor walk-up, and there's a reporter there waiting for him.

But he just wants to sort of be left alone, and he told this reporter, quote, I'm a coward.

I don't know why I did it.

It was the thing to do at the time.

And then even after that, he just keeps getting phone calls from reporters, and some of them

Learned that he was a Marine, and so they would ask him questions like, oh, was it your, you know, was it your training?