A Marine helicopter for a golf lesson? Anonymous Secret Service sources claimed agents were “fed up” with the Vance family’s last-minute “off-the-record” travel demands. Vance’s office responded with straightforward gratitude to the Secret Service and a reminder that protecting a vice president with a young, growing family presents unique challenges. When the incumbent vice president is being positioned as the heir apparent, the knives come out. And the real story is not a golf lesson, it is the coordinated effort to weaken the vice president precisely when the president is consolidating support around him.