Mr. KELLERMAN. Very much; very much so. I want to give you a little information on how these people are selected for doing your advance work out of Washington. In the first place, when they are brought in, you instruct them on everything you do securitywise around the White House. You instruct them in rangework, followup car work, every little phase entailed. Then say you have a little movement in town--the President has a press conference, as an example. He doesn't do that. Send him with an older fellow. Even if he just walks around, learn it. Take him another place, a departure from an airport, or a theater. Give him four or five. Then give him one, give him a little departure at an airport, or a hotel. But have somebody with him. Then there is no mistake made. Representative FORD. Now, when these men are assigned to handle the responsibilities in a particular city, such as Lawson in Dallas, is Lawson on the staff here or is he a man from Dallas with the Secret Service? Mr. KELLERMAN. These are all people we have in the White House detail, sir. Representative FORD. In other words, Lawson was a White House detail man from Washington? Mr. KELLERMAN. Right, sir. He is one of the men off those three shifts. Representative FORD. Now, when was your assignment made as the man in charge of this particular operation? Mr. KELLERMAN. Oh, I am going to say a week ahead, for lack of a better time--in fact, I knew that much of it. Representative FORD. November---- Mr. KELLERMAN. Say the 17th, for a better day. Representative FORD. On or before November 17th you got this assignment. Mr. KELLERMAN. Surely. I knew that I was making a trip, and none of the other two gentlemen were. Representative FORD. What did you do after you got this assignment--what steps did you take? Mr. KELLERMAN. OK. The steps that I took--this entails work right here in Washington. First, to determine, to staff people in the White House, who is all going to make it, who are the passengers. This is a thing that those advance people out in the field do not know when they leave. You set up the time schedule--flight time--because the people on the other end want you there at 11:30 in the morning, you have to work back a flight time from Washington, or the helicopter time from the White House. All this is incorporated. Weatherwise--you will use an automobile. Allow a little more time. All right. From the people that are out in the field on those 4 or 5 different spots, they are the ones that coordinate with the local folks what program they would like, which is forwarded back, conferred with staff people, whether it is approved, disapproved, added, or cut out. And about the day before you leave, then it is all gelled. Representative FORD. But this is your principal responsibility, to pull everything together. Mr. KELLERMAN. Right.