Wednesday, august 30, 1978
daily nebraskan
page 5
Advance man . . .
Continued from page 4
Once a candidate becomes his party's nominee, the
preliminary party ."which works about three weeks before
the candidate actually goes to a city, gains another partici
pant, a Secret Service agent, Waggoner said.
Advance men are usually well-to-do men in their late
twenties or early thirties who can take time off their jobs
to work for expenses only, or as in Waggoner's case, has
an employer who will donate the person's salary as a
campaign contribution.
Advance men are trained at a school for one or two
days and operate from a manual to provide continuity and
to keep the candidate at ease, Waggoner said.
But things do not always operate smoothly.
During the Zorinsky Senate campaign, which Waggoner
managed, an advance man scheduled a helicopter landing
at the Douglas County Airport to pick up the candidate
from the county fair.
However the Douglas County Airport does not exist,
leaving a circling helicopter, a disgruntled candidate and
an abandoned schedule.
While working for Reagan in Cheyennt Wyo.,
Waggoner said Reagan nearly missed a plane because
Waggoner was told an old railroad track was never used.
So Waggoner scheduled the Reagan caravan to cross
the track and then had to race across the tracks to
beat a freight train.
Waggoner said there are no prerequisites to becoming
an advance man, only a good appearance, personality and
intelligence.
"You hear a lot about advance men holding a lot of
clout with the candidates, that's not trueeither. They are
picking people who are technicians iff their own way,"
Waggoner said.
And if an advance man chooses the right man he could
end up in the White House with his boss, as Carter's
Georgia mafia has, or more ominously, as Bob Haldeman
and his Beaver Patrol did in the Nixon Administration.
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