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So, okay.

I got back from the house, and I reached the porch, and I pulled up to the back.

But everything was, everything was, I'm very, I am, I'm apparently home.

I told you that I had to, I'm trying to, as soon as we can get a transcript, and I'm not going to wait until tomorrow.

I'm just going to get on with the day.

And I just figured that, you know, probably, you know,

But that's what the...

I saw a little of it myself.

I mean, I stepped in and said, you know, I'm just going to...

I'm going to be...

I heard about that.

I have a chapter version.

He always has five questions.

That's it.

Yeah.

And I think, really, we ought to give it to Congress instead of adopting what we consider a must-be resolution.

We should condemn our Vietnam for its aggression.

Do you think that?

I think

The difficulty with sending the whole transcript, of course, you have to do that to your missions abroad.

It's too much effort.

But if you can, it's great.

It's summarized in the city.

And he'll go out there and he does the lines and fire them and everything.

Now, as a matter of fact, I'll have him send a copy over to you and you might want to send his summary of your missions.

You know, you understand that the main point being is that most people just won't read the whole thing and they won't understand it.

Well, I hope

The Secretary of the House will say at 3 o'clock that this country is firing on the last five minutes of Saturday.

The bill will be passed by tomorrow morning.

Well, let me tell you.

I haven't yet checked with Abrams right now, but just for your information, I don't want to be a military.

A lot of the time, if I have to do what I want to do, I'm going to do it quickly.

So what I have in mind is rather than doing his response, which I appreciate, I'm

Of course, we can't do it at the same level.

I think we should get down to 50,000.

I think that piece is a little bit gone, but I have to make it, you see.

So what I would like to do, I'm thinking about now, is to make it enough for two months, which will bring our ceiling down from 69 to 50,000.

$50,000 gets us down to basically $50,000.

And what happens is we draw $50,000.

So there's another $50,000.

I mean, I don't know.

There's $10,000.

Now, the other positive, of course, which you can discuss with me, and that's all in a month.

I have a two-month announcement.

I'm going to be there.

I think it means we don't have to come up against it every time.

It only shows confidence in the policy.

But they are fighting well.

You know, they're dying in the thousands.

If you get into some of that, then by God, we ought to be, we're our brave airmen and sailors.

are frankly risking their lives to help these people defend themselves against a massive crime and invasion.

In that sense, the Americans ought to be proud of our guys on this moment.

All right.

Bye.