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"I would never let you not let me protect the President." - To Toby "In the Shadow of Two Gunmen (Part II)"
Ron Butterfield was the head of the Presidential Detail for the Secret Service during both of President Josiah Bartlet's terms and for President Santos.
Butterfield was wounded during the shooting in Virginia, receiving a bullet in his hand. Despite the fact that his hand was bleeding, he refused to be treated for the wound until after President Bartlet had been secured within George Washington Hospital including overriding an earlier order from the President to go to the hospital to look after his hand before they became aware of the President's own injury.
His actions during the assassination attempt are based on real-life Secret Service agent Jerry Parr, who pushed President Ronald Reagan into his limo during an assassination attempt in 1981. He subsequently ordered the limo to head to GW Hospital after he discovered the President was wounded.
He is played by Michael O'Neill.