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to hundreds of guys. I would talk to them on the
phone, I exchanged letters, I started setting up a
correspondence section of anyone that wanted to write
to me and ask, had to send me a resume and a picture.
And from that we would start progressing. I initially
pulled together, again the number escapes me, but the
early part of June in 1970, I had the first advance
seminar. Now, "advance seminar" was a term that I
categorized because I did not feel it should be an
"advance school". That sounds too much like you're
training guys to go out and be political hacks, or how
to go out and get the political hacks. Or you're
teaching them things that really aren't right. There's
a bad, bad feeling among many politicians, about an
advance man: they're con artists, they're young
whipper-snappers, they're "BS" artists, they're
probably a product of a political hack ervironment.
Whether they'd been a lobbyist, or an aide to a
Congressman or a Senator, or an aide to a mayor or a
governor, or whatever the case may be. They know all
the political ins and outs, and how to get around
something, you know. They slap them on the back, and
they talk percentages in the precincts, and what the
black vote's going to do vis-a-vis the Jewish vote, and
all that kind of stuff. I said, "Forget it!" I didn't
want any political hack moving on behalf of the
President of the United States. If a guy had never
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