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The Humphrey government wasn't as bad as I thought.

We have the tapes in California.

Oh, I see.

And, uh, oh, uh, we did have a follow-up.

We had two guys hung in, one guy on Humphrey, because we wanted to get all the Humphrey tapes of Humphrey attacking the government.

Yeah, I can see that.

And, uh, well, that's fine.

I didn't have those.

What happened, though, is that after the California primary, they pulled the two guys out from the government, and we're supposed to switch the Humphrey guys.

because he was the guy that has the best operation or something.

And they didn't put him up there.

He's still in California.

He was here, but he's up there today.

And I just read it all the time.

I said, oh, this is an accounting of coverage.

You can speak for it.

And he told me, we've got it.

God damn it, if you can't do it, then let us know, and we'll put our own people on it.

Just go with it.

Well, my heart can't do it.

I go to John Fitzgerald's character and move it apart, which I already did.

In this case, we'll get it settled without you getting it.

Sure.

It was an honest mistake.

The guy just didn't get it out in the meantime.

We're getting the tape from the station.

And a little bit of it was moved on the wire, which is fascinating because they moved it.

They did move it from 941 this morning.

Or I heard on the news last night.

Right, yeah.

All right.

The water thing says, quotes from the saying, I'm being impunished every day by the punch club.

The center, we know it's rather than being a leader of the center.

So we need Democrats to pull itself together.

That's a unified party line.

We should have somewhat of a position in regards to that.

And then as far as backing from the stars, I don't know if I would regard that as a betrayal, but it's quite a support.

And I quote, I'm being advised every day by the pundits and my own advisors to move to the center.

But it's been demonstrated in one primary election after another that the center is moving to us.

The people are not looking for a leader who straddles every issue by standing in the middle of the road.

They're looking for a leader who will stand for change, who recognizes that we're in deep trouble in this country.

say that was apparently an effort to quote reports that in the past week the governor told party leaders he was willing to compromise his stance on tax reform welfare in order to ensure a first dollar pay period.

Tax reform welfare, they don't take the other issues into account.

Then one heckler shouted out saying, you sell out Vietnam when you sell out Israel.

He said, if we deny aid to a corrupt military dictator in Saigon, that's no way to deny aid to a democracy like his.

Oh, that's part of the quote.

There's more to it than that, but we'll get to it on the show.

I think it's good, though.

How are you coming with McGregor?

He's, uh...

He's up on the hill now.

He thought it was a good idea.

Which day?

We're going to Thursday morning.

That is the best.

Yes, sir.

Any more time tonight?

And so I'm aware that that's also a very good reason for me not to stay.

What?

Just a second.

Let's say you got me to leave.

I have to go to Mexico.

Do you have any more thoughts on the...

I know he's a bit of an expert now.

I just like the idea so much.

I can't just miss it.

It's a good video learning.

You have to concentrate on the investor kind of thing to catch up on it.

Some of them.

I think it probably does.

I haven't talked to Ron about it.

He always is against it.

He always wants something.

Well, he always wants it.

He wants it, which is not offensive, but my point is that it's true.

We cannot, we cannot have, the way I would do it is I see it this way.

I'm very, very full of plenty of concentration on foreign policy issues.

I won't.

I'm not.

Okay, I won't say that it will be televised.

Okay, sir.

Okay, that's a good idea.

We'll tell her if she comes back and before the end of the bump.

Yeah, before the conference, sure.

Before the conference, sure.

Before the conference, yeah.

The recesses.

Yes, sir.

Well, I have a statement.

Okay.

That we might, we could do it, perhaps, maybe, you know.

Over here?

Maybe Wednesday or...

I think I'd probably have to stay here until the concrete recess is done.

Well, at least that's on the 30th, not on the 39th.

Either the 30th or the 39th.

The 30th.

Sure.

I think you can leave the party.

I don't think you should leave the party.

You can go to the party party.

I discussed that with Ron, and the second question is whether or not we should go back to the internal science center.

And whether I do it tomorrow in Crete Park, or do it Wednesday in Crete Park, and in the week, in the week before, of course, of course, I didn't know how to do it.

I didn't know how to do it.

Yeah.

Oh!

But it may be that we're, we would be, frankly, doubling up too much this week.

I kind of understand.

Next week is a better time for it.

Just announce the conference next Wednesday or something like that.

How do you know when it starts?

I'll say before they, before it resets.

CPI comes out Monday.

Monday of next week.

So if there's anything that's close to the problem?

Well, if there's a post-problem, all we do is go up and down.

We've got a good month left.

Do you have any air seats on Monday?

That's another reason why it'll be a definitive foreign policy.

Thank you, John.

I didn't say it out loud to you.

It's a foreign policy.

You've got to draft it up in the U.S. News Archive.

We've got a long way to go.

Give you a chance to cover some items under that new policy today.

If you're looking at it as a cleanup before the TV, having it closer cleans it up more.

Also, it keeps you closer on your breathing.

a little more current in order, a little more current.

Well, I think we should decide that.

I won't, so I'll just get out the book now.

The book's back.

Mr. White.

Don't you think that really makes sense?

I think, too, we just should jam all of us together.

Alright, let's try to add that to it.

We've got salt.

It looks like we've got a portion of everything.

Salt, put it down a little bit.

Alright, maybe not.

I'm just going to put it on.

That's what I would rather have than the strong report of the train of emergency.

The truck didn't say we didn't want to get that out, that it wasn't going to be able to do this great service.

It's nice to get to know it.

Plenty, you see.

I think he could go around the country and get on his horse.

Get in into Detroit.

Get in into, uh, uh, celebrating how he realizes what happens to a guy that's had the shit beat out of him.

It's kind of, you know, it's not, it's not going down.

It's great.

It sure does.

It's, uh,

I don't know what I'm saying.

I mean, I know we are in this situation, so it has to be improved.

But unless the weapon, unless it is a good device, or it doesn't make a difference, what's important is actually to make the points.

This is going to be an interesting one.

There's a federal bargaining department that does this work.

This will give Anne a chance to sharpen up the domestic issues after discussions with her.

And I will not get my mind involved in it now.

Now with that in mind, I suggest we can try to do this tomorrow.

Clean up some of our odds and ends around here.

How long do we have kept?

We can't get them.

All right, tomorrow we've got them all.

We've got them all.

That's fine.

We'll get it over with then.

The BP may not be able to do it.

We'll just make sure that I... Well, plus I probably got them there.

I appreciate it.

Let's do the other thing later.

All right.

We'll just get a picture and that'll be it.

They're harder than I thought they'd be.

Alright, who wants to be the director first?

How about our councilor?

Uh, sure.

Is everybody back?

Alright, let's see.

George, I think one of you wanted to get some time to take the council first, too.

Alright, fine.

That's good.

Yeah, he wants to go to the post and he has to see that.

Because it's actually really, it doesn't really happen to people.

Uh, get it heard.

Get it heard.

Get it controlled on the line.

Where were we on Monday?

No, we went to Kiev Monday.

late Monday.

We went Monday afternoon.

We had the reception.

You know, my mom had that meeting with President on Monday morning.

And then he had the signing.

The O.R.

7.

Declaration of Principles.

Then that big reception.

Then the big reception.

Then we left and went to Kiev and got there just in time for dinner.

Oh, yeah, I missed the town.

We were in Tuesday night.

We were in Tuesday.

The state did a Monday night.

Yeah.

Tuesday night was in Tehran.

Yeah, Tuesday was in Tehran.

I'm sure Tuesday night was the state did in Tehran.

And then Wednesday night in Washington.

Thursday night in Washington.

Today's Monday night.

Yeah.

The American school, the American business community, and even the university, the beauty of our...

So, uh, what's the news that you get?

First, I might want to explain to them that we're very hard off, and I've got to be able to schedule it for them.

And we sort of fell into that accident in time, because that's the way they work in time.

And that's a good pattern.

And another thing, too, is that all the time we're pushing.

Yeah.

We did 11.

We had a luncheon.

The one thing that challenges people who go to the neighborhood, plus having to eat a big meal in the middle of the day, you know, that closes, closes the factories.

It takes so long and it just slows everything down.

It's so much simpler to go back to your old place.

It's that little thing that you did here three years ago.

I think it's what Colson said before the convention, he can't come there.

The delegates, he's after a lot of people.

He's got to be played to the left in order to lock up the ships and have the delegates.

And the ships have got to be after him, not before him.

Can't tell if he's got a predator, unless he's, uh, you know, by his body count.

Then it's, uh, then it's an analysis, and all the rest of it, and now X-3, 800.

Yeah.

25.

Blocked.

It's been surprising to me all the way.

Everybody says those are solid elevators, but it's no damn well they aren't.

They can't all be solid.

The way that it gets to Connecticut people, and to people about who Kennedy really wants is, he must have taken away the McGovern delegations.

Kennedy, there's Bruce that's on the bus.

Nobody else.

That is the palm of your hand if you've got any credit over those moves.

Alright, okay.

You've got enough, okay?

Well, okay, okay.

Very high.

Okay.

Good.

Yeah, okay.

I think we ought to turn it.

See if we can find it.

Somewhere around.

Right.

Move the wheel a bit.

Right.

No need to.

Okay.

Right.

Nice job.

Southern center.

This is a good one.

He had had a call from his governor.

And the governor had had a call from Billy Joe Camp, who was Wallace's man.

Billy Joe said that Wallace would be interested in running for vice president on a Kennedy ticket.

And that he'd like the governor to think about that.

And if the governor thought that was a good idea and probably could support it,

to call Kirk to Kennedy's office and make that suggestion to him.

And the governor got to thinking about it, thought it sounded like a pretty good idea, called his senator to say, I think this sounds like a pretty good idea, and I think I'll call this guy in Kennedy's office.

And the senator talked him out of it and said, this would be a ridiculous idea.

So the governor didn't do it.

That's

That's all there is to the story.

Craig's just saying that he's trying to figure it out, and he hasn't checked anybody else on it yet.

He wants to get one step or two, and then do a little detection.

So, I don't know.

I don't think we can see if anybody else is playing the same play.

He says this may be a reaction to the Mills.

Or that maybe this is all orchestrated by Kennedy, but he's more likely to be next.

He's more likely to be Kennedy, and for the travel, and for himself.

but they may be having some people try on the vice-presidential level to get bills and laws and other people may start floating out that they'd like to be vice-president on the Kennedy ticket as a way of starting to push the Kennedy ticket.

And that was where I died with what McConnell picked up to Kennedy won the nomination.

It's not very Kennedy-like to go incorrect.

Usually they just move

a little blatantly on top of that.

So it just, it's a...

So how about any driver?

Well, I wonder, can I say, why, I don't think it's a good thing.

I don't think it's a good thing.

He's perfectly capable of it.

He's basically a Kennedy man.

Although he may now have figured he's got more control, which he would.

Mankiewicz would have much more power in a government organization than he would have in a Kennedy organization.

There's too many other people as close or closer in.

Kennedy, I'm proud of.

I think people expressed that in their last life story when the government operation was done in London.

You expressed that in your last life story?

I'm not so happy with the military anymore.

I don't think we have any other chance to go over there.

The wall is going to be destroyed.

I don't think so.

and carry this people over.

The Wallace's people believed in Wallace's position.

I don't think they believed in Wallace.

I think the Wallace's people should have started

He follows the camp.

I think I said it this way, though.

Isn't that true?

Maybe it was.

What did the governor say he got it from?

Or the senator got it from?

The senator got it from his governor.

The governor had to call him to go to camp.

Yeah.

Let's see.

He was talking to Black McGregor a little bit.

He got his head up.

He talked to Fulbright.

Fulbright.

He said he thinks we're making a great mistake.

I'm told.

Fulbright?

Yeah, I'm told.

I'm told he's going to make a great mistake.

But I'm just quoting from your deck of cards.

The deck of these is not a system.

You do it on television.

You look at what you get.

Sure, you'd be the biggest audience in 89 TV, but it'd still be a very limited audience.

Just not as big as how you would have on one network at night.

Oh, that's right.

Not as big.

And you would get something on the news.

You'd probably get 10 minutes of it on the news.

You can't get five minutes on the news.

Anyway.

Okay.

But I improved.

Oh, wow.

Oh, yeah.

The plus on radio still is all the people in this town will listen to it.

That, to me, is an enormous value.

Well, that's the other thing.

We can do it on a closed circuit radio.

We can do it on a local radio.

Maybe that accomplishes just...

I'm going to say we'll type it over to the State Department on an RPA system.

And the CIA.

And the defense.

But they have a system because of them.

I gave my briefcase.

And they tried.

They tried it at the White House.

I know the defense has it.

I think we can.

I think we can set up a house network rather than radio.

Just say, all right, we're just piping it to the department.

Mark raised one point.

The problem of mastery of ceremonies.

Or a ceremony.

And Clark wondered if maybe he should, you know, so you have someone, especially if you're doing it on radio, or for the transcript, so that the questioner will be identified.

And so the way Clark knows all of a sudden, I'm just going to have to call him by name, and Henry would have to point out that that's the questioner.

It would make it a little easier for Henry if someone else recognized him.

I think it's a little better if Clark went,

That's right.

Clark will know.

Clark will know that we should come first.

And that sort of thing.

And that also puts it completely as a White House breaking kind of thing.

The other option, as Clark pointed out, is if O'Brien will leap up and say he'd be happy to chair the thing, you don't want him to come down to the White House and chair a meeting.

Well, Clark should do it.

I feel much more comfortable in this solution.

I think that's a great advantage of having a full statement on it.

Well, that was the last answering question.

I think the publicity is for you to judge, but we should do that in terms of

But it's not breaking down.

This is clearly the other stuff.

That's the funny thing.

It's clear that it's completely different.

It's not breaking down.

We can set the line.

We'll set the line for the other.

And yet we have not broken down.

Why don't you set the line on the poster?

Right.

That's another point you need on McGregor, though, so that he can crawl on the senator and the congressman by name.

Yeah, McGregor, I hadn't thought of that, but he is right.

Because he was, uh...

He made that point when I was talking about the ratio.

He said he was going to have to identify the question.

Then he said, actually, uh...

I can be the magistrate, but...

Well, that's it.

And incidentally, the piping is better.

Don't try to do it in the radio, okay?

And work out piping into the Defense Department.

The NSA, CIA...

I wouldn't do that.

No, I don't think the Congress cares that much anyway about it.

They'll get the chance to.

That's right.

Yeah.

You check with Ron on the other possibility.

This is a good solution.

There's no reason for us to have come all this way.

And then for us to, uh, uh, for us to have an event.

It'll pass if we haven't followed up.

They said they were unfortunate.

But also, we want to remember, too, just that little letter you read to him.

He would have this thing, you know, this was a great arms control thing.

Bill Foster, Kennedy started it.

Goddamn, they didn't start this arms control thing.

Oh, yes, they talked about Salt before we got into it.

We remember it very well.

We're the ones who did it.

That's really a real damn disloyal thing to do, isn't it?

And there's always this view, there's always this, you know...

It's a challenge.

It's a practice.

So it's not a problem for me, it's not a problem for me.

It's not a problem for my life.

Yeah.

I've been at it 15 years, Greg.

It's been a long time, too.

I've got to get the Mexican out of there first.

We've got to get the Mexican out of there first.

imprecise decisions.

The President has no doubt that he's going to see one week of attacks against the Trump.

If you give our men a shot, believe me, they'll see.

Would it be true if they go all over me?

It's a shot.

I assume they don't need the administration, but if you give them what the administration needs, you could have them see that this was your initiative, that it was maximized in your right hand.

We can get that through a combination of right-hand credit.

that you can do, I don't have to get VR done.

I can tell you which is the day that audience will get that one because the biggest part of that VR session would be questions and answers with a technical measure that they probably didn't understand anymore.

Yeah, he just left here.

We gotta give me that little bit of now.

Yeah.

That's right.

That's amazing.

That's right.

... ... ... ... ... ...

Oh, yeah.

Actually, the sign I checked, that is exactly what we want.

The story I was going to say, I don't know if you can see it.

It starts with the voice.

Well, I think television is a matter of course, but I think all kinds of people change the whole issue.

You couldn't have such a thing.

They change the whole issue.

Well, I've come to think about it.

Right.

The China trip sort of indelibly led to the invention of the public market, which was basically a market piece.

And from then on, it was...

It's a very clever way to create these impressions that they make.

After all, from A.A.'s, he got away with it.

He sensed he was fooling himself.

You know, it's interesting to note, too, how in each one of these pre-reactions, he just, uh, with certain specializations, they show each other together.

Now, this sense that they think it's A.A.

I knew that he was not going to sit down.

He was not going to sit down.

He was married.

... ... ... ... ...

So damn much.

And I'll tell you that we're going to call it a halt or a pause or anything.

Yeah, and they gave that up in 1968, didn't they?

Concentrate on it.

That was before the North region was realized what we were doing.

They should be backed up and they can't do anything about it.

It's nice to, uh, you know, see it now.

You know, we've been trying to, you know, we've been trying to, you know, we've been trying to, you know, we've been trying to, you know, we've been trying to, you know, we've been trying to, you know, we've been trying to, you know, we've been trying to, you know, we've been trying to, you know, we've been trying to, you know, we've been trying to, you know, we've been trying to, you know, we've been trying to, you know, we've been trying to, you know, we've been trying to, you know, we've been trying to, you know, we've been trying to, you know, we've been trying to, you know, we've been trying to, you know, we've been trying to, you know, we've been trying to, you know, we've been trying to, you know, we've been trying to, you know,

I don't think we can.

I think we're right.

I wanted to raise that, too.

I think that we've made the offer.

We've not for a month before.

That's it.

We're not.

Well, we did.

We said that, too.

But we cannot go through with that.

We actually can't.

So, I'm not saying that he cannot run any of that.

He cannot get to this point.

It's like something he can't.

Or, I don't know why.

I mean, what did he do?

I was, uh, I was strongly hurt.

I was concerned.

It sounded, it sounded.

And then, well, I'm in China.

They can't bomb an auto.

They can't bomb everything else.

They're not supposed to be Chinese.

They're supposed to be Chinese.

They're not bombing around.

They're not bombing above the 20th.

It's perfectly all right.

Good God, the damn Air Force is taking days to take to live in above the 20th, you know,

Pretty hard.

Yeah.

... ... ... ... ... ... ...

Now, I don't think it makes any difference how many you take out.

9,500-620% of the board.

I would, I would think so.

I suppose you'll have to, uh, I don't know, in your view, it's, uh, it's, it's a chance.

Not that.

It's, it's a chance to be.

I've got another one.

Yeah, but we can say this is a bigger cut than the last one because it's 20% of the floor at the last time and 15% of the floor.

I don't think we should say the number is that important.

There are more draft cages over here than the old ones.

They don't have too many eyes.

We can't push through.

We can't do that.

They get the idea of...

I said to Google, that is it.

And you know how lucky they are.

I said, look at Vietnam.

Why would the president be so stubborn about a little corner of the nation?

What is the one thing he would do?

Betray a friend.

I don't understand why a lot of Japanese friends should try to get us into the back of the train.

I said, everyone but Google.

Well, you know, the funny thing, I still go back to that speech we made on the return.

I didn't have one.

I sustained the honor of the United States.

My country, they love me all the stuff.

I sustained the honor of the United States.

Well, the thing is, too, as I said to that dissentist, not only did he say it was much better than ever, but certainly it hurt him to realize that this silly end to war resolution would have hurt the goddamn enemy, not the negotiations.

And now we find that a one-relation negotiation

Or we wouldn't want to do that.

But, Mike, what this proposal about June 28th does is they don't accept it.

And it wasn't enough for another week or two.

Scott, that is a lot.

That's what it's all about.

It's about time.

We have a good excuse to say we offer to try to move it.

When would you say that in order to do that?

He just had another car to play with.

He had another car to play with.

It's not in our interest to stop senators who were supposed to be started well before.

We could stop the senators on the 7th.

Well, I don't want to have a plenary come out flat, flat out, turned down.

I mean, I can regulate that if you tell me what you decide.

Fourteens is the best.

Fourteens is good.

So I think they're negotiating, but that won't lead any way out of this eastbound.

Because they'll have to do some other accounting on their platform.

So you can coordinate for seven, it's not a good time.

This, uh, this acceptance would be a very difficult thing.

The 13th, I don't see them the following week.

Before the 20th.

The problem of the, uh, you mean you'd have a private meeting after the 20th?

Well, I will try to have the private meeting before their choice will be, uh, if they accept the 28th for a private meeting, we'll have to have a family of six.

But that won't be so bad because we'll have a

They'll be very close to break down.

But we put it on Sunday.

But we put it on soon after.

We put it on early tonight.

We put it on Sunday.

The moment, well, before the...

No sir, no sir, we haven't put that in here.

No, we haven't put it in here.

We haven't put it in here.

No, we're trying to know so we can set up a fire and bomb.

We've been struggling all the way.

We've never seen fire in a field up to 30.

Now we are going to change that.

We're not going to give them that.

Is that a quarter?

No, we don't want to do it.

We don't want to do it.

The way to let it be stuck is to lock it first.

The purpose is to make it always be there.

So I can't believe some people don't have phones that should have a password.

I don't think that's a good thing.

I think that's a good thing.

Yeah, if that is his, that would be quite something to have.

I know most of the good in this.

Maybe he just wants to do it and show it.

You might.

I hope he just wants to do it.

If he goes anywhere...

I guess we're all set on that.

We're doing a lot better.

And you, that's what it is.

You have to do it your own way.

There's a little reason for that.

There's a reason to get older.

We just can't keep this up.

We just can't keep the pace up at this point.

What do we need to do?

Well, I mean, this leads right to my amazement.

I said, you know, I said, you know, I said, that's what it is.

I'm going to play a little bit of this.

They helped us.

They said, who would have thought that this is how the military would be able to do this kind of stuff?

It sure works.

And people have come down here today.

Well, who would have thought that they had this kind of idea that they had this kind of thing?

They had to be able to do it.

They were really good at it.

...customers... ...who are totally irresponsible... ...reporting numbers... ...and I said to myself, I'd love to get back to this stuff...

...I'd love to do some more of this... ...more of this stuff... ...and it's... ...it's... ...it's... ...it's... ...it's... ...it's... ...it's...

It's not easy to see, but they may do it.

But it's worth the election.

I would guarantee that they'll settle this down one way or the other.

Sure, of course, it's the election and the goddamn irresponsible statements of the government.

And that's what we don't care about.

But, I don't know if we can get...

I mean, he's gone three cities soon, coming back with new instructions.

A lot of things going on in and on, Mr. President.

And I'm sure...

Yes.

Can you imagine Anthony who is seeing another one and not being received by any of the other leaders?

I mean, if they had a clear line to pursue, they'd be settling into Anthony.

Literally, two steps.

Ten more.

That's right.

This gives you a little time for the rest of it.

If you'd like, by the time you want to go to Penn State or something,

I think I should talk to her around.

Yeah.

Very good.