Nixon, Firestone & O'Donnell on Bob Hope and USO

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What did you have in mind in the scheduling meeting today?

I don't think there ought to be a prolonged meeting at this point.

Not at that hour and everything.

Yeah, that's right.

All right, fine.

Well then, we'll have to do it over in the EOD because we're gonna have some choir come through here.

So we'll meet over there.

I think we're gonna have to do it, right?

Yeah, yeah, we will.

Well, they're gonna come through the office, see?

Yeah.

Yeah, fine.

How are you?

Good to see you.

Good to have you here.

I'm sorry to call you by your slow name.

It's all right.

I'm telling you, you're the old kid.

You've got a pretty good show over here.

Mr. Iger.

Hi, how are you?

How are you?

Good to see you.

You call it your, your, your, your, your, your, your, your, your, your, your, your,

Ha, ha, ha, it's been patient.

I know you're a pouncy guy.

I know, that's right.

That's really great.

You said you'd best pick it up some time.

Hey, how about this one?

No, I'm going to get out of this thing.

Oh, are you?

Oh, you'd better.

All right, Carl, I can just lean on you.

Aren't you good like this?

Yeah.

Oh, great, great.

You got a good one?

I don't know, the park's all done up here.

But wait, he doesn't need that.

Let me just stand right here.

That's right.

Here we are.

I'm not going to shoot.

I'm just going to break down and shoot from over that way.

Because I don't know.

I'm not going to let him save him right there.

That's right.

You're doing great.

Here's a, here's a, here's a, here's a, here's a,

Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.

Yeah, we got that thing.

I'll give you a video of it.

Yeah, I'll give you one of these.

And another signature.

Mr. President, it's not that General McDonald was my boss for three years.

That was his military game.

Well, is that right?

I personalize that a little so that these people get that kind of a signature that that's what you get.

Oh, yeah.

You know, that's 58.

Well, you can be the...

It was a park.

Oh, yeah, I forgot about that.

I forgot about that.

Great.

Would you do that again?

Right.

Do you ever need an inspiration?

Yeah, I thought he was great.

Marvelous.

Yeah, that's a great question.

I've watched him go out in the barn.

I've heard a lot of people.

Apparently you are.

Yeah, you know, he's had a little eye.

There's kind of everything in that cold.

I called him the other day and I told him that

Yeah, what a lousy thing.

I mean, here's a guy that just goes out in the presence of the Patriots and some of our boys, and so these stickers say they're going to give Bob open awards.

I mean, as far as I'm concerned.

These people are supposed to be religious Christians.

My God, can they express differences of opinion?

Can they admire a good man who has given as much to this country as their own?

Time, effort, raise money for the Catholics, for the Protestants, for the Jews, for everybody.

Three and a half million people involved, Americans and military.

Three and a half million Americans.

I have a little training for you here.

That's the presidential complex that you ought to have.

I'm sure you don't have one.

You do.

I love you, Marshall.

I love you.

You can't have a complex.

We didn't do that.

Oh, you're doing well.

I'll get the show pretty much.

Good.

Well, I'm going to take you over here.

All right.

Thanks a lot.

I want to show you that I can handle this too.

There you go.

You're doing great.

This is a document.

You're doing great.

This is teaching you.

Right, right.

Thank you so much.

How about that?

One of those.

Oh, and thank you for your second care.

We're, you know, we're all here to follow.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

There.

It's all I got now.

All right.

Thanks.

Thank you, Airhouse.

It's probably good to see you.

We'll look at this picture or the other one.

Yeah, we'll look at it.

All right, fine.

We all look the same.

I know.

Bye-bye.

Thank you.

Nixon, Firestone & O'Donnell on Bob Hope and USO

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