article_snippet.sent: Ultimately saner heads prevailed: The National Park Service and the Secret Service are recommending the addition of half-inch-thick spikes, angled away from the White House, to the existing fence.
article_snippet.sent: A Washington, DC television station showed this mockup on Thursday, depicting the angled steel spikes that will soon be atop the existing fence .
article_snippet.sent: the angled steel spikes that will soon be atop the White House perimeter fence will be bolted on at the top for a year or more while an entirely new fence – as tall as 10 feet
article_snippet.sent: the White House might also get a prison-style double fence with space in between, but barbed wire has been ruled out.
highlights_snippet.sent: White House planners say White House planners're ready to recommend spikes at the top of the mansion's fenceposts to better protect the president .
  