 has directed the U.S. Secret Service to protect independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and security will be beefed up now for Trump's VP choice, J.D. Vance, as well as for the current president and vice president. A wider buffer zone has been established around the White House. Kennedy's uncle, President John F. Kennedy, and his father, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, were both assassinated in the 1960s. It's 16 till.