Nixon, Clausen & Lockwood on Freemasonry and White House Meetings

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Oh, well, aren't you surprised you can use your eyes before I step on the ground?

Well, I'm glad to see you.

I'm glad to see you.

I know, I know, I know, you know.

But, uh, I've been there.

I've been there.

Sir, I was told you never believed it, but I was going to give it to you.

The Supreme Council of England is going to weigh in on this issue.

Well, we're going to be very happy to have you here.

Let's just wait and see what happens.

Well, I'm going to give you a separate tour today, sir.

Sir, I'm going to be offering a visit to the Grand Commander of the Supreme Council of Ireland, and listen to what he's going to say.

Oh, what?

Ha, ha, ha.

Sir Ian Johnson-Gillard of the Supreme County Department of the Lord of Niagara City Council.

I know.

They all know you're sitting like that.

They know you're in a level party.

Robert Burnett, who's in Kansas City, I don't know if you know him.

He's very good.

We've already got the Scotts here, and then we've got John.

And I, as you've always heard about Scott, he drives my city.

He's got a couple of us around.

And I realize this is a legitimate change in the administration.

That's right.

And this is Bob.

I see.

So I'll look at the Sovereign Grand Commander of the Supreme Council of Canada.

What is your city up there?

I've got to pick one up.

Our deputy grantee manager from Texas, Waco, Texas.

Oh, he's done a great job.

The fact that he's been down there and came off to a great day.

The fact that he's a student of ours today.

Sir, on 10-6-7-4-3-5-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6.

That's a wonderful story on how the impact came to Sweden, you know, on the covering of the land.

You know, John Lewis Shepard, I was in the Dragon Valley, he was the first person to come to the park with someone.

Mr. President, this is our headquarters here in Washington.

And, uh, oh yeah, this is Bill, something that I was going to try.

And this is our conference.

Now this is the tax exemption.

I mean, it doesn't have to be signed into law.

I don't have a great program on drugs.

This is the program.

I worked with all of you when you were down on Montgomery Street.

Do you remember that?

Yeah.

The Army Hancock and all those boys, Alan DeRae and Mark Dolan.

That was an exciting time.

We're so pleased to have the opportunity to come here.

Now let's see, would you like to get a picture at all?

We'll see if we can get a copy.

There you go.

Now, wait a minute.

Wait till everybody's lined up here.

I'll let you this way.

Hi.

You know, Bill Timmons is, uh, is a wonder to, uh, your, uh, you and Scott Shriver.

He's one of our honor men.

In other words, he's been honored with a special honor.

Thank you, man, across the water.

Uh...

You know, my friend Robozo was in Florida also, so we weren't surrounded by him.

Well, I have to say, we had a dear friend, Ed Timmons, here, one of the first, what we call, fellows that we sent on the program that he had at George Washington University for training in government.

That's why he's so efficient.

I want to say that particularly to our people in this country that in addition to all the many good things we do every day, Shriner's Hospital and so forth, there's a strong patriotic

which runs through your, I realize it's a fraternal organization, but you are afraid to wear flags.

That's right.

And all the way, I have heard from all the years, and we need that.

Thank you, and we appreciate it very much.

Well, thank you very much, Mr. President.

We want to give you a little memento here.

It's not much, but with that freeze on, we can't give you much.

As you will note, this is the mark of the road.

built at the time of Theodore Roosevelt as the President actually sealed the ceiling and the floor and just reproduced it.

And here it is in a coupling.

So if you do this, it's a coupling.

Well, thank you very much.

Ladies can't wear couplers, so you have to pull.

Thank you very much.

I appreciate that.

So we want to thank you.

That's the medal for distinguished visitors.

And I just want you to know that

I'm very honored to have you here.

We'll do all we can.

Surrendered here is Scott, the cardinal of the dollar.

This isn't gold, right?

We'll get along.

I mean, as far as our small fees, as far as we're concerned, I don't know.

many of our visitors have brought from the major countries, the British, the French, the Germans, the Italians, the West, and of course the Japanese.

This is a temporary matter which we, but we, but it's, but to have, it's necessary for each of the five or the six great free world powers, for each of them to have a strong, sound economy.

We have to have an address.

You should have a British address.

Congratulations.

Thank you.

We hope you do.

And publish this picture on our website.

Oh, absolutely.

It's for publication.

We're going to get the map back.

We will put it out, too.

All right.

For anyone who would like to use it, we'll send it to put on the wire for the British if they would like it.

Oh, and he should get some coffee.

I'll let you burn it.

Now we're going to give you all a special tour of the White House if you'd like.

It's not much fun to go through there when all the people are traveling through.

We have a special guy that will take you around.

Take your time.

Thank you.

Well, thank you very much.

It's great to see that we're meeting.

Oh, that was a huge advantage for me.

What do you want me to do?

to Russia, all right, and China.

Those are strong people down there, thanks.

Goodbye.

All right.

That was the next group, sir.

Thank you.

Nixon, Clausen & Lockwood on Freemasonry and White House Meetings

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