I got to provide base detail for Obama when he landed at Offutt to go to the Iowa Caucuses. There were people running out of gas parked on the base perimeter road waiting for that motorcade to get 3 miles away from them.
I know everyone thinks it’s cool to say they got see the President ( yes it kinda is), but there is not anything fun about having to wait on that damn motorcade. Ask all of us who went to the Alabama-UGA national championship game.
It's kind of cool if you can do it in a small crowd on the safety of a military base as some of us have been fortunate enough to do - yes. (My sister even went to see Trump when he went to their base in Japan because they'd get a good sight.
But this is not 75 years ago when I didn't see the Prez on TV every single night, either.
You've probably heard this one but in 1982, VP Bush went to Super Bowl XVI between the 49ers and Bengals.By the standards of that time, this was a HUGE Super Bowl because it didn't have any of the powers of the previous decade in it - no Cowboys, Steelers, Dolphins, Raiders. It had (for the first time) TWO TEAMS that both had losing records the previous year.
Bush went.
He was not very popular afterwards, either.
You see, it was the first time they ever decided to play the big game in cold weather. Yeah, a dome. But there were snow banks outside the Silverdome and a -21 wind chill. Because Bush came, security was a nightmare and some people who had paid a truckload of money for tickets wound up missing about half the game waiting to get in.
In fact, the 49ers team bus got to the Silverdome late because of the thing. Bill Walsh was revamping the playbook, and Joe Montana joked that if it had taken another hour, Walsh would have installed an entirely new offense. In fact, Walsh was on the bus joking, "We're up 7-0, and the trainer is calling plays."
Needless to say, folks who went there weren't pleased, and it had a lot to do with Reagan and Bush not going to very many events (remember: Reagan had been shot only ten months earlier).
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