Like the time, visiting Lincoln’s tomb in Springfield, he performed an Illinois political tradition for the cameras: rubbing the Great Emancipator’s bronze nose for luck. He began answering a pool reporter’s question about the hostages—and Nofziger nearly knocked them over hustling the great man away. On the bus, another press officer, James Brady, defended the practice. “We have our own agenda. We don’t want a story to break before we were ready to communicate it to the market.”
