Meet Reggie Love, the 'Bodyman' to Obama ; He Keeps Hold of Mr President's Blackberry, Drinks Bud and Watches Football with Him, Got Him to Do the 'Fist Bump' and Try Hip-Hop. No- One Is Closer to the President Than This 'Butler' ... Who's Just 26 [Eire Region]

Mail on Sunday › February 10, 2009

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BARACK OBAMA'S first guests at the White House couldn't have missed him. Crammed into a tiny cubicle just outside the door of the Oval Office sat Reggie Love, a 6ft 5in, 18-stone, shaven-headed, muscle-packed, former American football player.

Though fast, athletic and tough he is not one of the new president's official bodyguards. And though he has a degree in political science, he is not a policy adviser.

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Meet Reggie Love, the 'Bodyman' to Obama ; He Keeps Hold of Mr President's Blackberry, Drinks Bud and Watches Football with Him, Got Him to Do the 'Fist Bump' and Try Hip-Hop. No- One Is Closer to the President Than This 'Butler' ... Who's Just 26 [Eire Region]

Yet Reggie, a charismatic and immaculately dressed 26-year-old from Charlotte, North Carolina, spends more time with Obama than anyone else - even First Lady Michelle Obama. For he is the president's 'bodyman'.

The bodyman is a curiously American political appointment, da...

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