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And so often in the past, the inheritance is not true.

All right.

You all ready?

How do you say coldly to them?

It's your fault.

and still make the case and not do it in a way that you're accused of throwing a challenge at them so that they can't do anything about it.

And it came off exactly the way you wanted it to.

That was 17 years ago.

I think I was the right one to put in the guy.

I didn't do it.

It fit.

It fit fine.

Now look, I don't want to embarrass you about every good thing.

It fit very well and it's going to...

The reason for doing it is that for a hell of a lot of the people who send telegrams and write letters, that's damn important to them.

They want you to ask for God's help.

They do it themselves and they want you to.

They don't want you to say you're going to run away then and think about yourself.

So is there a good point to that?

That's good.

I can show them up.

Show them that they can't figure it out.

You know, people say, you know, get an advance tax.

We sure don't even know the speech for a while.

What did we get, 17 minutes?

I'm 17 now.

Every day a little less, a little less.

It was good to get it down.

I got older.

I was over 22 when I finally got out.

That cut in the rain was exactly right.

If you go shorter than that, it looks like you don't take it seriously.

If you go longer, I think you lose people.

I think you run out.

At 17, I didn't want to listen.

and this makes the case.

Did the mining sound ominous enough?

You see, I didn't use, you can't use the word blockade, you know, and rockers may have done a mistake in having them say that.

I always say, but we're not doing it.

Did it sound, well, I guess it did.

Well, I shouldn't go on making that, you'd have such a problem on the TV.

Sorry.

I don't think there's nothing to do about it, but I think you can turn around and do that.

to point out that the Vietnamese have been mining and that this isn't a blockade.

I've been rushing around saying all the things it is.

But, you know, well, it must have stopped pretty often.

I said every ship would be stopped.

That was some pretty tough stuff.

All right.

Thank you.

Yeah, no, I asked him if he could come over to the O.V.

office, please.

What did this fellow tell him to finish up there?

When he's finished with the congressman, he'll come over to the O.V.

office.

What's he doing?

He's in with the fire titers.

You know, I would have said, look, I know you're working down there on the cold water power.

They're wanting him off.

Uh-huh.

I don't think you needed to stay there, I think.

Well, I didn't want to do it.

I know you were going to track it.

Well, Bell and Moore were supposed to be there, and they were supposed to move right in.

They got to get a quick vote, but they were with Congress, and so they didn't.

which is really much more important.

The rule of Congress doesn't understand some of that.

He did eat to have the food because they're going to have to be very guilty by the Capitol people all they need.

That's, briefings aren't very important on this one, and that's, I mean, those are the things that Steve said.

That's it.

You made the case, not with Meyer, I mean with the guys, but I got a call from the senator, and they said, well, we don't know what he's going to say.

So you don't need to know what he's going to say.

What he says will be absolutely clear to you when he says it.

It won't have to be explained.

And the key here is not to go out and sell this to anybody.

The president's going to do that.

The key is to make sure that the people to whom it's sold respond so that we get some reaction and start building the evidence to support it.

If there isn't any support, we can't build it.

We've got nothing to do about that.

It's there, though.

All of our people always figure they've been on the right or the right board.

Oh.

Yeah.

Oh.

Yeah.

Okay, that's ringing through.

Hello.

Well, I knew why you weren't there.

I knew you were doing one of our important things, listening to Congress.

Good, good, good, good.

Good, I appreciate it.

I think you ought to take a little bit different line and say, we're going to do what's necessary.

You know what I mean?

I don't want to indicate what the hell it is.

You see what I mean?

Now, incidentally, on the other hand, man's still ready to fight about how do we get to China.

Now, obviously, we're not going to jeopardize the Chinese relationship, but we also have to say that this is not directed against any other country.

We'll take the necessary precautions, but we'll do what's necessary to stop the bull, see?

But I think the moral...

You could be a little more hoppy than I am.

Say that you're urging the president to get on.

And that'll help us a hell of a lot.

Also, get all your people in there and ask the 50,000 people in there.

Say, well, you see, we can't trigger something.

Was it done?

Great.

You send a well done from me to them, please.

Matt, oh yeah, yeah, we want to get them down.

All right, you send a well done.

Just say, Secretary, whatever you're doing, the President's talking, the President's talking.

You send a well done, keep it up, okay?

The other thing is, I was saying before today,

I think now on our airstrikes, we ought to pick these targets.

In addition to the railroads, the other things should be P-O-L, P-O-L, P-O-L. Don't you agree?

Because if you get the P-O-L, they can't run those aircraft.

Right.

Okay.

Well, thank you a lot.

Yeah.

Bye.

You just dig your own chin out of there and get down.

Scare her.

Okay.

That's terrible, right?

He just doesn't sound strong, does he?

He sounded scary.

He's bold.

He's bold in both ways.

He always wants to say what we're not doing.

He tries, as a lawyer, to argue the case and make it appear to them.

Here, we want to appear totally unpredictable.

It's a strange way of thinking.

The way he runs through it.

I don't think anybody would prefer that broadcast.

That's got to be, we've got to have that knocked down.

I don't think it's going to happen.

I think.

I could be wrong, but I think it's going to happen.

It could be.

Not with everybody, not with everybody.

You want to be right back with the commentator.

Tell them all.

All that matters now is getting a score.

Whether you do what the commentator is telling you, I don't know.

You don't have a good score.

That's good.

See, Rogers said, well, this is not a blockade, it's a war.

And that's why you don't need to listen about that.

Just say, well, it's not a blockade in the legal sense.

Rogers should say it's not a blockade in the legal sense.

That's interesting.

A.D. carried the president in his order that all enemies should not be adopted by taking action.

He wasn't surprised at what he called the International House of Laws.

Also, the U.S. was very capable of making a great political spot.

That's really crazy.

That's very important to stop.

Thank you.

Would you like me to discuss it so that it's just a light?

We don't have a cooperation today?

We didn't set up a commentary on our people, you know, those people calling in.

We were not supposed to call them.

We didn't call them.

If we didn't, I would be glad to hear it, but I'm not sure.

We should not, we should not really.

See, some of these are people that we call, you know, on a regular basis.

You know what I mean, isn't it?

I just don't want to go through that exercise.

We don't need it.

So...

What's up?

You know, when we had only one part of the project to create it together, we didn't accept it, except for the question, this is not a lot of money.

But I, for God's sake, thank God he paid the rest of the cost of it.

Well, I had to ban it from Hague when he did it over in Jackson.

But he kept saying, this is the best you can do to get the bomb.

Tomorrow we're going to bomb it.

I got that across from the kid.

I told him we're going to do what is necessary.

I'm going to tell you, man, we're all fine.

I wouldn't say that.

All we want is for people to support us.

How are you going to get them to support you?

All right.

I called the media, and he said this is the way we're going to do it.

Who?

He called the media.

Did you go?

The police.

I go to the police station.

Who are those people?

The gay lockdown says.

Very much appreciated.

Good to speak.

Fixed sentences.

Great.

Studying up the telegram.

Well, see, that's what we're after.

It's good.

It's not that.

I.W.

Abel says, forthright, recent station, quite handy.

Don't know what else he can do.

He's concerned with the dog.

It's not something that we can do all the time.

both the workers 100% support will send telegrams.

What we're doing is we're going to smoke out the ones that are with us and then move person support activity where we can get it.

We also have some educators that we're going to try and get some academics.

Yes, we can.

That's what we've got to do with some of the people who aren't going to go to faculty.

Because that's what makes the difference.

I have not been a strong supporter of the Vietnam policy, but this was a giant act on the president's part.

the U.S. troops in danger and doesn't want to buzz out of a continent safe.

Well, Greenland was...

I don't know if I should take that out of the speech.

They are, they are.

That's a doubt.

I didn't get the final text in five years.

You think it wasn't supposed to be?

Yes, indeed.

And there was not the transpiration that I didn't know that it was going to be decided by that.

I thought the picture was better than that.

It wasn't.

Anyway, we got it.

We started doing it.

Now that we've grown, we aren't going to screw it up.

Oh, my.

I just talked to Larry.

He said, fine.

He said, fine, John.

I said, I want you to be the boss here.

I want you to stick your chin out.

I'll do it.

I'm going to tell you the truth.

But he did.

He said he was in a nice story to send a well done to those that put the lines in.

No, he's a patriot.

Keep after him.

The thing about Rogers is that he's bought them off.

God damn it.

What?

Bell's no coward.

No, no.

Bell is a pragmatist.

Victor Rytel says this is easily the best and most effective speech the president has ever given, and I've covered it since 1947.

He told it as he should have told it.

It was very modulated.

There was none of the evangelists he thought would admire this speech.

So it was evangelistic.

I think it was God's help.

The editorial support we were after is God.

And on a serious basis,

Seattle PI.

Arizona Republic.

Good.

Boston Aerotravel.

Good.

Denver Post.

Bill Hornby, Executive Editor, one of the best agencies made.

As long as he did not commit, we commit ground to the use of basic strengths we have.

I'm impressed.

I think the overall effect will be good.

Buffalo Evening News.

Extremely dangerous.

extremely courageous under the circumstances of what we had to do.

I'll hear over the senator.

The situation is very grim and there will be much reaction, but he needs all the support he can get and will have ours.

Senator, it's about time.

Don't further give a strong, sound speech.

Make a strong, sound decision.

It should have been a long time ago to display a certain amount of emotion as a result of the gravity of what he was doing.

Overdue to the Soviet Union, we're consistent with previous questions, including his own.

Oh, he's all right, go ahead.

Well, that's what we were covering.

I can try to get a meeting.

We're trying to get support.

Hartford Park.

Houston Chronicle.

We will support it, but we feel this will provide considerable care in the country with a man of protest and conquest in the nation.

That's right.

I look forward to taking a great rest from the surges, taking a great rest from serious consequences.

I think our Vietnam will trade off with us, but definitely they will pull out in four months, someday in the year 2065.

Start healing us.

I'm afraid the speech the president has ever made had manifested his determination to achieve an honorable speech in a world without political wisdom and self-reproach.

It would be a serious setback for the president to get to Moscow.

We felt the president reflected desperation in time of hearing the speech, but his tone was mostly that of determination.

This is probably his biggest crisis taking off.

Senator Bennett.

We worked on some mayor, you know, looking for any mayor and government support.

The mayor of Spokane, probably the most difficult decision he's ever made.

Part of the show plenty of guts.

Operating, show plenty of guts.

The president is supported by the mayor of Salem, Oregon.

When they're done, it's the best thing.

A lot of our playing back, it's like you keep a missile car, so you can't deal with that.

You've got this

Yeah, but you're going to have this.

It can't be a mistake.

But you're going to have the three-day breath holding now, you know, while you're waiting for the mines to open.

Yeah, they shoot them.

And then they question what happens after the mines open.

Well, the castle is sunk.

I don't think that I'm going to have to go out in the building.

Good.

They're all conservative, but they're never opposed.

Never opposed.

Bill Hornby, effective editor, one of the best agencies made.

As long as he did not commit, we commit ground to.

That gives the basic strength we have.

I'm impressed.

I think the overall effect will be good.

Buffalo evening news.

Extremely dangerous, extremely courageous.

Under the circumstances, it's what we have to do.

Elliot Arroyo, Senator.

The situation is very grim, and there will be much reaction to these.

All the support we can get will have ours.

San Diego Union, it's about time.

Don't be afraid to give a strong, sound speech.

Make a strong, sound decision.

It should have been a long time ago to display a certain amount of emotion as a result of the draft.

It was very sober, very funny, since any importance.

Oh, he's all right.

Go ahead.

It was, uh, Carl was on the front as a staff.

He had a lot of support, didn't he?

He had to do his thing a lot.

I don't feel for public support.

Well, that's what we were covering.

About eight.

I did try to get a, a meeting.

We were trying to get support.

Hard to return.

We will support a public deal that will provide considerable care in the country with a man of protest in Congress and in the nation.

That's right.

I look forward to taking a great rest from the serious consequences.

I think our Vietnam will trade off with us, but definitely they will pull out in four months, someday, and return to the sea spine.

Senator Bennett.

We worked up some mayor, you know, with the very mayor and governor in support.

The mayor of Spokane, probably most of the votes that he's ever made, part of some of the money he's got.

Operating, showing a lot of guts.

We're making the most of the support we've got.

We're making the most of it.

Mayor of San Marino, he's got it.

I don't know.

Fun fact, it's like the Cuban Missile Crisis.

There's been a lot of that.

You've got this, you're going to have this, it can't be a mistake.

You're going to have the three-day breath holding now, you know, while you're waiting for the mines to come up.

And then the question is, what happens after the mines come up?

Rough, but the castle will stop.

I don't think they're going to have to do that.

I do call straws.

so that there'd be no crisis in Germany.

I'm sorry.

You know, one thing I will say is that this is a goddamn good, well-written speech, but particularly just to get it in 48 hours.

It really is.

It's duly constructed, making the case, laying out the decision, and summing it up.

Not a word to my head.

We met in the 70s, not in the 70s.

He didn't go to Canada.

He spent the minutes of his ministry in Israel.

And in his house, he wants to survive in an old man's country.

He might do it.

Very clever.

Should I go by and tell him I saw you?

Yeah.

You can say I'm a minister.

You can say this.

There are not many panting ladies here.

It's up to you.

We want good relations, but if you're the government, you're the government.

If he becomes president, he's a man, he's a desert.

He's a fellow peeper, he's a guilty person, a goddamn crud.

You throw him down.

Okay?

Tomorrow, when you hear Sherman, you know, even before I get to breakfast, we are going to bomb here in China, son of bitches.

Worry about Chinese.

How do you inform the Chinese?

You're getting a little .

Do we inform them?

Should we have ?

No.

Is Rogers in?

I think it is true to me.

His voice is very pleasant.

I was there cranking up the board to get the C2 and that stuff together.

Oh, did you?

Yeah.

I told you about it.

They had already set it up.

I mean, that's probably better if you get it cranked up.

But it's kind of good.

I don't know.

Nothing to do with it.

It was already set up.

Well, except they couldn't go in and have a little enthusiasm to pull up the head.

Well, you know, it's video game.

I mean, I don't know how you think about it at all.

He's done it with all the goddamn things.

This is a very minor act.

It's the North Vietnamese mines, uh, what do you say?

The Saigon River or something, all that.

Yeah, but all of this is irrelevant.

What we have to look at now is iron determination.

It's the only thing that's going to save us.

So Bob was there.

Didn't I even get to pay that fee?

A little back to you?

Yeah.

You did it completely.

But I was impressed by Hayden.

I can only repeat, Hayden came back completely shaken from the congressional leaders.

From the Rocks.

And the Rocks.

Congressional leaders?

Yeah.

And the Rocks.

After I left.

After you left.

I want you to draw.

You should be in charge.

I'm saying, blockade low.

This is, the words are in your mouth.

The president has made the decision that there is to be no more seaborne deliveries of supplies, and we will carry it out, whatever is required.

You say that, okay?

Over.

I can convey the address that we know what we're doing.

I'm not worried about that.

I am worried about our own safety.

Right?

Yeah.

Well, blockade low, I'm saying.

We don't show enthusiasm and conviction.

Our people will.

I don't mean our people.

I don't mean the White House people.

Anyway, you go to the party, and we'll have a session with him.

He just said he got it in.

No, he doesn't.

He's always trying to explain, be defensive, and all the rest.

But Laird's got it in.

I trust him with it all.

Well, Laird wants you to get it in.

Get him out in front.

I have to tell him to get your red bill back to Europe.

That's right.

Maybe let's send him right away to the farm.

They haven't been afraid to come back.

I'm very sure they haven't been afraid to come back.

Well, there you go.

You go to the farm.

Well, maybe I should come along with him.

I really, I'm not dying to do this sub-cabinet briefing.

It's just my time.

But these guys do go back to their bureaucracy.

We'll find a way to do it.

Good luck.

You can scare that minister to death, will you?

Okay.

Henry?

Remember, a lost wife...

Let me say this.

Here's where I go further than you to do that recollection of World War II.

If it requires the devastation of Hanoi and Haipan, it will be done.

And I ain't going to bomb this under the bench right into the stone age.

I understand.

I don't think it requires it.

If it requires it, it will be done.

Right.

You have a cigar out there?

Yes, sir.

who are conning a job like this and shit, use up and tear their ass off.

Well, let's see, what have we got here?

Choice?

different list usually we try to get a cross section this time we were hitting the ones that we were all working for for support i just want to be sure we understood

We care.

There's not a goddamn thing to do about it.

We don't care about that.

We weren't looking for a balance.

We've got to play a hard line, tough line here.

But we've got to smoke out where our support is and then ride it.

And we've got some.

That's the key thing.

We've got some where we thought we had it.

And we've got to see how far it goes, how much we can get out of it.

All right.

It's all consensus.

Everybody loves it, right?

And they love it.

Sometimes, at a certain level.

Last night, he was, he stood for a hell of a lot of hours before he knocked out.

Could have been a fellow, but I'm not sure.

He just stood there and followed out.

And he was trying to get him to hold on.

I think it would be an almost mortal shock if he did it right now, just as he would have hoped, if he could hold two weeks.

I'm not certain of that, but I just think if he did it right now, even though they know he's holding two weeks, if he could just hold two weeks, but not at all, but by our 10 days, you know what I mean, if the sun goes off,

for a couple weeks and the summit stays on, that he wanted to still go before you leave?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Tell him we'd like to look at his bids on the summit.

Tell him we'd like to look at the summit decision.

He did go as we expected.

We meant to have him leave just before that.

What?

Have him leave just before the summit.

No.

If the summit is canceled, then he ought to stay on.

He's got to stay on a couple more weeks because there'd be two blows in a row.

If the summit stays on, which I'm serious about,

You've already helped me look into his favor a couple of weeks ago.

You and me?

Yeah.

We're only talking about two weeks ago.

I'm 15.

I'm very concerned.

So, I probably had to be the record of pressing this decision for the second half of the year.

God damn it.

He's bracing away.

He just can't understand that.

That's just totally believable.

I wouldn't understand.

Land calls.

You already have four calls.

Okay.

That's all you can try to say about it.

The weather is decent.

Even halfway, it's the only place in the picture that's about 40 of us.

Just the man, I don't want the woman, is outside, you know, on the steps there, and there's a deception sign on the floor, and I see the tip outside of the page, and there's a Bible pointing to the members of the class.

You can do that in the district.

You know, the front door, of course, but I don't want to call out, except for the second, and that's the president.

And those two trucks.

Hello?

Baby, Bob.

Pretty good.

That president wanted to know if you'd watch TV tonight at all.

You did, huh?

He thinks you're probably his father.

Your girlfriend's calling you.

Really?

Yeah.

Are you getting more than you usually get?

I'll be done.

What are they saying?

You look great.

Yeah.

He's present his lifetime.

That's the real problem.

We had that before.

So they keep trying.

We got it this weekend.

Probably.

Good.

Okay.

Thank you.

He used to all cranked up.

He said he always gets a bunch of phone calls after your speech, but a lot more of the same.

He said, like, McRae doesn't usually call.

So we talked to him.

He was just ecstatic.

Some woman called and she was practically crying.

She was all upset that she couldn't get through to the Western Union and send a telegram.

So she called me to have him know the president.

It was an elegant speech, much more elegant than this one, but I don't think it got there.

Well, people understand that, you know, we can do something.

I had a problem with that.

The people you're pushing for support, you're not having any trouble pushing.

Yeah, I saw some of those cars present.

They're willing to line up.

Okay, well, be sure we enlist them now.

Get them to start the labor guys.

We've already had marches.

Callow must enlist in the military.

Yeah.

Still shows through.

They don't make pieces.

Yeah.

Good.

Right.

The problem is he's obsessed with having his plan.

This isn't a blockade.

We aren't really going to hurt anybody and it doesn't really mean anything and all that.

That's exactly 180 degrees wrong.

The line here has got to be, this is a blockade.

We're going to kick the shit out of them if they have it.

We can't apologize.

We can't back down or back off.

I'm not sure borders would be better.

But he gets into all the technicalities of how many decibels it takes to detonate the fire.

Air is better and rust would be better.

Let's watch Rush tomorrow morning on TV, because Rush believes in this way down to the core.

Yeah.

All right, if you've got any reason, I'll telegrams it off.

Okay, well, now it's time to start hitting Western Union.

Let's get the president up out of bed and tell him that we're getting calls from all over the country now that his goddamn offices won't take the telegrams and that we're going to make a national scandal out of it, that they pulled this before and, you know, just scare the shit out of them.

And tell them they'll probably have to lose their franchise wanting to get something better than communication.

Well, it's the same old story.

Now's the time to start busting them on that.

And get that story out.

And tell the people, any people that call complaining they can't send telegraphs, tell them to call their local paper and TV station and say they can't get through to Western Union.

Good.

Well, that's the one that's starting me up.

We ought to now get the head of Western Union as we've been waiting long enough now.

Let's see if we can put the aid on that.

Let's see.

He just said a lady that he never heard of just called in and said she couldn't get through to Western Union and said she was calling in.

We put the full load of operatives on so there's no light.

What's your own personal deal on that?

He'd like to deliver.

I'd call him Harris and send him a letter.

He'd suggest you check with Harris and send him a letter.

He'd read you from that.

Okay, thank you.

See what their personal views were.

Could you get the, uh, Mr.

Rush, the Deputy Secretary of Defense, please?

Kenneth Rush.

Kenneth?

What is Chuck's

He's amazed by the reactions.

He thought we were going to have to push people.

He thought they'd be shaky on whether they should come in on this or not.

He said they're not getting that at all.

The people that they had lined up to move on are just all out.

So he's very important to me.

Ask Ron his reaction too.

Hello?

Yes, how are you?

Well, you're very kind to say that.

Let me say, you're going on in the morning, and I'd like to give you just a couple of thoughts.

Bill Rogers, the governor of the state, is not a lot of people.

Don't take that line.

Take the line that, well, the words are going on, what it is, and the president is going to do whatever is necessary to stop all the sequel.

Do you agree?

Now that we've crossed the Rubicon, we're going to keep those factories, and we're going to do it even more, you know.

So take a very strong line.

Remember, it wasn't necessary.

The President is safe.

The President has crossed the Rubicon now.

And we can also decide that we've made a report on it, which is,

And then we'll withdraw all American port lines.

Okay?

I appreciate it, I appreciate it.

I know it was great, but anyway, but the main thing is...

I got a call later, and I got him to work at Long Island.

I said to him, I said, Mel, you've got to be more hawkish than I am.

He said, yeah, Mel's a decent kind of a guy.

I said, what is he?

He said, well, dragon.

Dragon.

He talked to me more.

So right now we've got to meet the corrosion.

All the way, okay?

All right, I'm going to kick him in the ass.

Oh, you will.

Are you coming to buy it or not?

It would be a nice little party.

We're inviting all the lawyers in the administration to sort of be there.

We'll remember those.

They were your students.

I'm calling you for a couple of minutes.

I'm going to have to say the final words, please.

Okay, well...

He just said, well, here it is on the wire.

It's too late.

White House supporters jammed with calls, overruling the majority, expressing strong support for Nixon's stand.

And they've already turned the wires on the Western Union, and that's what we do, because they've got to make calls to the Western Union.

places around the country, and they're saying we can't take your, they either can't get through because the lines are busy, or they would say we can't take your telegrams, our lines are jammed.

So, now we're going to have a bust in the West Indies and over the country.

We've got that.

We're going to run, run, working the color thing on the basis of a determined, resolute decision in early, working on the thing yourself.

All the options were carefully reviewed.

This was a deliberate decision in making that point so they don't get into any, I mean, that's Cali, Atlanta, but any Columbia.

George, I just wanted to say that, you know, as a family, we have our differences, but I just wanted you to know that I took this decision because I know that this could be a challenge.

And if you could support it, I would appreciate it if you can.

I understand that, you know, by God, we just can't let these people around us.

Alright, good to talk to you, Charlie.

We'll find something.

I believe we've got something to say for you tonight.

There ain't shit.

I didn't pay in one minute.

We have to pass this.

Let me see how to take this.

Put it out.

I think it's necessary for a medicated place.

Let him come.

That's very good.

All right.

She says she's got some caution that they've all said that they're getting through this.

She said one that was interesting was Jack Colley.

She said you might remember Miles Laboratories.

And he told Rose he had never made a call in his life after a thing like this or anything, but that he just had to call him to say that he thought this was the greatest speech any president ever made to move down in history, which would be the outstanding speech by an American president.

And Charlie Ryan had called in from New York, where he was willing to move the people of the city, but very brave that this had to be done, and it was an outstanding move.

A buddy of Al said she had come to let me determine the SCM.

We thought it was absolutely great.

That it was exactly what some president should have, someone should have done a long time ago before you even became president.

And it would be very courageous of you to step up and do it now.

And Rose said, and she thought even after having worked on the speech and all and sitting watching it, that it was so plain and clear that that was the real value.

There was nothing confusing about it.

People understood exactly what you were saying.

And you made it so clear that you put it to the enemy.

They've been talking about peace and making all these noises and all that.

And the Soviets in particular, you know, it's now up to them to lay down the gauntlet.

And it's clear.

And she'd been over here, and then she'd gone home.

Billy?

Thank you.

Billy?

Wait a moment.

He wanted to get it out.

All right, I think that's absolutely right.

You think the case came over all right?

Good.

You can see that thing's in.

We're getting a fantastic response here.

We can't do our usual check because of all the things that are all jammed up here.

I think we're going to get an enormous response because it seems to be a tremendous around the country kind of thing.

We don't usually have, we always get a lot of our own supporters, but there seems to be an important

I'm going to see what they decide to do.

The thing now is for the American people to realize that and back in, because if you know that these salt heads on the hill are going to all squeal, and we just got to ride that out.

Right?

Right.

Well, that's good.

Also, I hope... Well, we'll just have to counter that with the evidence to support on the other side.

If the silent majority crank me and they all speak up, why, uh, they could drown the others out.

It's not small.

Yes, sir.

Okay, Billy.

Thank you, sir.

Bye.

Did my wife squeal and say, whoopee?

They said you really laid it on the line.

The thing now is to stick to your guns and ride it out.

There's going to be a lot of people squealing probably, but this gives the real people in this country a sense of pride.

I thought it was just tremendous.

He was amused at the reporters, and the commentators did not handle it afterwards, and they couldn't figure out how to be very creative on it.

He was very heartened by a report from London that I guess was on TV, saying that the British will back you on this, and also they reported that the Germans are expecting to back him.

The French will probably take no position one way or the other, so he thought that was a great thing.

And they reported that the Soviets may be in jeopardy, but maybe not, so it is...

He said the thing to do is hit it quick and hit it hard.

He said we can press Thomas in Memphis tomorrow and then Birmingham on Friday and he'll come out strong.

He said the other thing is we want to follow up and try to get some help from his apparatus.

They pulled out a few of what they thought were interesting wires that

We assure you are full of solidarity in your action taken today to protect the lives of our American soldiers in Vietnam.

Michael Sinecroft, Chairman of the Hancock County Democratic Executive Committee of Western Virginia.

I'm not a worker.

Get those out.

You're welcome.

I've been laid off work ever since you've been in office, and I can't support all your weight issues.

However, I'm also a Navy veteran who was manning a gun mount for the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, and I wholeheartedly support your position on the Vietnam situation.

The only night we would be actually seen necessary to take our purrs and whispers to the stage.

If you cold heartedly agree to this, then you can lock me in your iPod.

I'm going to just take a night.

Congratulations.

Keep the soft boards, but keep the big sticks when you come and speak to our World War II veteran, American Democrat, Winston Lester James.

Get up to the press tonight.

Yeah.

Okay, good.