Conversation 607-014

On October 29, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon, William D. Ruckelhaus, John D. Ehrlichman, John C. Whitaker and White House photographer, Glenn R. Davis, Clifford M. Hardin, Stephen B. Bull, Ronald L. Ziegler, William Harrison Fetridge, John W. Starr, Walter L. Lingle, Jr., Alden G. Barber, Tony Allen, Paul Grimes, Ivery Kevin, Dennis L. Spencer, Robert L. Avery, Robert Meek, Grant Soukup, Darry L. Bellard, Michael S. Jones, Kenneth Spann, John D. Ehrlichman, William F. Rhatican, Stephen B. Bull, and White House photographer met in the Oval Office of the White House from 11:33 am to 12:25 pm. The Oval Office taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 607-014 of the White House Tapes.

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Mr. President, I feel all right in my mind.
I'm an armed enforcer.
How are you?
Mr. President, I can bark at points about you.
Me?
Mr. President, you do.
I say, well, you just don't know what the Congress is going to do.
I agree, sir.
I guess you're supposed to hold it so they can compare.
Oh, that's a good argument.
I don't know.
Let me see this one.
Here it is.
That's right.
This is a bird made for young people.
That's right.
That's right.
That's right.
across the country.
This is probably the only time I've ever heard something like that.
And you're meeting with the police now.
They have five very different programs.
Thank you, my brother.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
I didn't realize until Traynor sent it in to me that you were almost as old as I was yesterday.
Yeah.
I'm telling you, you're just one year behind me.
You've got to pass me before you know it.
I haven't got to get any older.
Yeah, that's right.
Now, the way you got there, play that golf on me.
I never see those type of golf course.
Well, anyway, good luck and take care.
Okay.
Bye.
You know, this is a, here's the kind of certificate they'll get through a pen appointed by the high school itself and by the students, faculty, and community of the University of America.
All right.
For having an award.
Excellent.
All right.
How do you like your job?
He is unbelievable in Indiana.
Indiana should have two jackasses in the center.
You know, really.
And this guy has got a little quite heart.
He's a crude, but he's unbelievable.
He's also lucky.
Yeah, he's lucky he's got 3,000 votes.
He won 58 in the 64, and he just came up against me.
Well, anyway, there'll be another day.
I appreciate your work.
Thank you.
You're a strong man, and you take a lot of heat.
Now, just be kind to business to me, brother.
Let's have one week where we're kind to business.
You want me to do that?
All right.
Two nights to go.
Don't get too caught.
All right.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
These are, from there, is Project SOAR that comes from Boise County.
That's our main program.
They'll probably give me one.
Oh, well, you can say you're already a member of their group.
All right.
I'll take the same question.
Yes.
So, all right.
Thank you all for the program.
We've got a little better section on this.
That's the secretary of agriculture.
Um...
The question will come up as to how to announce this, and we feel strongly that it should not be announced.
Well, first of all, he can't come into the league, and second of all, he's in trouble alone.
Of course.
He's gone.
Oh, absolutely.
Well, are you saying that we should let the Secretary resign?
No, no.
Hold on.
Hold on.
Hold on.
Hold on.
Hold on.
Hold on.
Hold on.
And ask him to keep the confidence.
Because he's going around saying, I'm an honest man.
If anybody asks me, I'll tell them.
Well, what the hell with that?
He's got to keep your confidence on this until we find a replacement.
Yeah, yeah.
Because if he's set off in our speculation, it would be very terrific for him.
Now, John said that Don Johnson will not be acceptable to the Bureau, the Farm Bureau.
Why?
Well...
and checked him out for a job over there at the time.
The basic problem is the farmer here doesn't like active business, period.
I said we had a dispenser problem.
The second problem is that one of Johnson's businesses was a grain dealer, and the farmer would have had to finally pay the grain dealer for his low price if he becomes the NOD.
It's not a great idea.
The only trouble is, if we didn't end up, and I can see this coming, and with all the different hashtags, there's some jackass, and he's not a jackass, but he's got a buzz.
He's smart and without color.
You were really downloading four names.
And Butts is one.
Neither John nor I know him, but we heard good things about him.
Johnson would have a great list, too.
Sure you can.
I was running by Paulie, because I thought Paulie's a candidate.
Well, we can check the Farm Bureau out of the discreetly and find out.
You understand that the main thing is to get a salesman at the damn job.
Sure.
The only thing I'm about to do is bring in the candidates in front of the secretaries, and they're already in front of the direct commission.
I know.
That's bad.
And then we've got to get away from that and go to Harbaugh.
So what does that look like?
Straight political.
If you're not going to have a farmer with dirt under his fingernails, Harlow's the best choice.
Everybody knows him.
He'll help.
Confirmation would be easy.
The Farm Bureau organizations probably would not object to him.
As far as the Irish farmers are concerned, who else?
Harlow.
That's the point now.
We, we all, we want, we're so organization conscious.
I don't know if I can do that.
But anyway, I know what I call the problem with this.
I don't know if they're trying to agree.
Or are you?
Well, yeah, actually, we'll think about it.
Yeah, yeah, you go get it.
Sit down, John.
Your brother was going to have to resign.
Oh, yeah.
There's some scandal brewing there.
Yeah.
So, we're going to get him out of the curse.
I'm sure he's out of that.
He probably knows how to get out of it.
That's right.
He's getting up to jump into the water.
This is the day he's ready to die.
But already there's a lot of other cities that are going to be done.
Well, I know that's what I want to do.
I'm going to be there soon.
But before we get into that,
who's following you is, I think, something that is a matter of tactics, which I appreciate your call for.
I know that there are many great pressures that everybody has already, but the moment
The pressure's on me, from all the jackasses, to have this guy and that guy and that guy, the fire engine got a candidate, the fire bureau will have a candidate, the TV will have a candidate, the, the, the, the, the, the,
But, you know, the thing that I want to do here, I think if you will help me on this point, even though I started with fire, you're not being, you're here, you'll be happy.
So, I pray that we live with this honor.
The thing I'd like to do is to say that you did it.
You just haven't made a final decision.
I mean, I have nothing to say on that subject at this time.
So that we can, we can, so that I can, at the time we announce you, I would say we've just got to announce your success.
I just feel you've got to do that.
Or we're going to have to.
If you get to the meeting, you say, you know, you're going to be in court, you're going to turn right away to our Secretary of Agriculture, and he says, you know, you're going to be in the President's Cabinet and all that sort of thing.
It's a hell of a big thing.
And you can see what we're going to be hit with, Cliff.
Now, from your personal standpoint, I know that it's very difficult.
But I'm not talking about a lot of time, because I know we've got to move fast on it.
But I think it's important that you try to do it right now.
In other words, give us a few days, or I'm going to try to do it in a week.
I'm thinking in terms of a week.
I'm not thinking on what I'm going to do.
I'm thinking of leaving at 3 o'clock in the morning.
Well, I think you should take the trip as a...
Turkey is, on what I said, a trip, and all this is that deal you promised on the piece of one road that's not open at all.
Yeah.
But my point is that you should go, certainly in agriculture.
And why can't you put that in between?
How do you get back?
Well, I understand you'll stop off the FAO in Rome and see.
And we can do that.
We can do that.
And, uh, which is a little awkward to come late at that time.
Well, the main point is this.
I don't think you should be a land duck.
I want you to go out and say you're going to take this trip to the Secretary of Agriculture, and you should be there as well.
And when you return, when you return, we've got you on a not prepared line.
When you return, we'll just have you gotten our ducks in a row.
That should be the time.
Nothing should be done, Oak Cliff, believe me.
We can't open this Pandora's box until we've got you replaced right at the very end of the road.
We've got to do our best to catch them every day.
I don't object to going to Turkey to the lame duck at all because obviously we're still in the midterms and I can still represent you in this asylum.
No problem.
I'm an open earth expert politically.
Sure, sure.
There's not much point in my making that speech.
It even hasn't been announced.
It's announced the next day.
It doesn't carry weight.
What are you suggesting?
Well, I can't get out and do it.
I can't get out, but then you can have your son.
Unless there's been an announcement.
I can get out if there's been an announcement.
I don't know.
I'd rather get him to make the speech.
Make the speech.
First it's true, and then we'll do it.
I mean, we all know what we have to do here tonight.
And let's just do it the right way.
But you can see that the transition is so important here.
Well, I didn't have the name right after her name, and you approved, and so forth, and wham.
And we'll have our private understanding.
which we, of course, we had earlier.
But let's have a private understanding.
But we've just got to keep you out there as the Secretary of Agriculture until we've got your successor ready to come on fairly early in the end, because I'm sure she can keep doing that.
And then you can tell your colleagues that, you know, I know your future colleagues that it's my request.
We've just got to do it in a race, a really, really perfect way.
Tell them you didn't do it that way.
Also, if I still didn't come to your church, I'd rather have you be here than be able to scour me.
Well, that's it.
I've been able to get people in to set me in.
I never have gone to meetings because I didn't quite prove what they were doing.
And I've kept them in arm's length.
And finally, they've come around.
So I do have a little obligation to put them back in.
And all these are my blessings on you.
We've had a lot of fun.
How many, uh, is in the big conference?
It's the, it's the, it's the big, every two years.
Oh, yeah, well you should do that.
And, uh, we should, we should do that.
And ask Secretary Wagner to come as a land doctor.
So that's another comparison to the way this, by that time, we didn't have our country.
But they, uh, I didn't go two years ago.
Because they were playing games with us, and we were playing third and down.
So I'd like that to come around.
But right now, I don't get much, because the people at the present time are pretty sick of the international organization, you know.
And they're well aware.
So it would be very nice to have a black meeting to pull out of the ILO.
All right, everybody, sir, I've got to go.
Okay.
I was wondering if I could go on a mission for a week.
I'm sorry, I don't know if I'll be first, but I do want to make a conclusion before we get out of time.
I'm a sailor from Russia.
Oh, really?
Yeah, what's your name?
I'm a sailor from Russia.
I'm a sailor from Russia.
I'm a sailor from Russia.
I'm a sailor from Russia.
I'm a sailor from Russia.
Now, this is the vision.
Any place, any spot.
Yes.
Yes.
What should we do?
Send them from the West Coast.
I would like for you to... You had originally given General Hay a sign that you were trying to get something done for this before you made your announcement.
Yeah.
Now, it's still in his hands.
What I would suggest is to make Jim Hopson full rain over the weekend to go out there and see what you can work out.
With, with, with, with... With Lisa and his cronies.
George Schultz said this morning that Gleason had positioned himself neutral.
I didn't really have a chance to know what that meant, but Jim Hutchins is reluctant to deal because NSC has the ball, and the two aren't together enough, sir.
But the guy that has the most influence on this staff, Gleason, is Cole Schultz, who can't move because he's done a hell of a lot for me, Gleason.
And Gleason thinks he's my friend.
We may have to do it in a roundabout way because they're going to be telling me some of these are going to be unpopular.
What can we do?
He doesn't play.
Is there a way we can do it?
You know, I would like to.
If we absolutely will not do it, there's no way we can force it.
Then I would like the system dragged right out into the open and let the public go after it.
Well, there may be a way to stop that.
Is there a way we can do it, though, but to get the public to go after it won't raise the price so far.
No.
Is there a way that we can go around policing anybody else slowly?
Well, won't bridges slow them?
Sure.
You promised me it right.
You could do it through Duluth and Chicago.
Quiet, man.
Get it started.
You're going to get the first group of ships.
There are no American bombs in the lakes right now.
And that means he doesn't care.
That's not what he's doing.
But there's only room for time.
Get one batch of ships out before the breeze.
But who is doing it?
Who's pulling this together?
Who's talking to this?
No one.
No one.
All right.
Get it done.
All right.
First, get it close enough.
How do you deal with this with Gleason?
Because, you know, if you're going to get him by persuasion, he was close enough.
And second, tell Higgins to be done.
Now, the seat character is always Higgins.
Higgins takes all for it.
I want this done.
And we are going to have to ride over Gleason if necessary.
If there's anything we have to ride over, there's another way to do it.
Mr. President, we'll see.
All for it.
The Secret Union said yesterday we see it.
We said no, because all continental grain company could save us if the deal was good for the farmers and good for the country, but it wouldn't do a thing to the seamen.
Well, for good God's sake, it's just a fact.
Well, I'll tell you what I think you ought to do in the first instance.
Is Hodges going to talk to the police?
No.
Nobody's talking to him?
But right now, God is over in the making.
They're sitting right out here.
Put them together right now.
I don't want to do that anymore.
It's got to be out this weekend.
Let's put some heat on it.
Let's get it going.
We've got to go.
And if any of these leaders play, or I will take them on.
And I will.
People are sick of these dams.
God starts to strike.
This is another subject on our own.
$150 million.
We really need to get out of here.
It's a bushels, bushels on the unit.
It's about, uh, OIC and, uh, uh, now, basically, it's about a $200 million order.
$200 million for the first order.
$30 million already on the second and third.
And, uh, there's a lot more, a lot more behind it because they're building up a big lab now.
Well, also, there are other reasons why we want to do this differently.
We've got to have a deal with the Russians right now.
It's very important, folks.
Very important.
I'm leaving Iran to make that deal, either this way or the other way.
But the chance of destruction has to go.
And these great boys in Iraq have got to deal with this.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
All right.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It had to do with the hard hats and all the rest.
You know, it had to do with them.
It's mostly because of a man named Calhoun who turns the screws on at least, and I don't know what that means.
I don't know.
Anyway, whatever it is, do what is necessary.
And it is to be done.
And I need all of your arms to be pushed and kicked.
We're going to make a special price announced out of Kansas City that lets them pay for it, which we can do legally.
Announce it to all shepherds, but there's only one standard, and that's top of the medal.
But we have to do it that way.
But this is what makes the deal possible.
Perfectly legal.
I don't think we'll be criticized for it.
Now, in 63, Kennedy closed the deal.
Let's stop.
And we don't want to get caught in this.
Oh.
Then he convinced the Russians to take some wheat.
Oh, I heard the word.
Yes.
Now, and then they got the bottoms.
And he creates a path out on US bottoms.
And then if we made the thing possible, we had to cut the department of the wheat.
I sued the shippers so they would have enough market.
I remember it was hard work to do.
It was a tremendous city for a while.
Now, we had to cut it.
It was a lousy deal.
And we must have been involved in agricultural funds to subsidize the business.
But there's going to be great pressure.
That's what the seat barrier is trying to do.
That's how it is.
That is how it is.
That is not going to be done.
There's no serious love at all.
The problem is, there's no pressure.
Well, find any way to get it done.
Any way.
And there should be no, no quarter given police.
None.
None at all.
I called the continent last night.
They had charged.
They sent a couple of ships to Rotterdam and the Berlin.
I see that they can't do it the third time.
And it bothers me.
We have to wait a minute.
I'll tell you what, it's a damn hard thing to find somebody to be secretary of agriculture.
I don't want to talk to you about it.
That's all you're saying.
I don't want to react to any of that.
Yeah.
I don't want to talk to you about it.
I don't want to talk to you about it.
Depends on what you want.
I won't select my successor, but I think you ought to have my reaction to it.
Oh, absolutely.
Campbell is a good man.
He runs the department.
He's very good.
He's an honor all the way.
He wants to go back to Georgia and make the race for governor in 74.
And he wanted all the help he could get on that.
And right now, we're on the top of the key.
And he'll play all of these little bits when we talk to Russ, and I think he will.
And we can make that man fire his man down.
I'll give you a prayer.
I'll give you a couple of lessons.
It's not silly, but it's true.
I know.
It's a big deal down there.
And he solved that one.
So that's your picture number one.
All right.
Call me.
Call me.
This guy is amazing.
He really is, Brendan.
He's solid.
He's a farmer.
He still has it on his farm.
So he came off the farm after he operated for 20 years.
And he was the one person I think
He's a better man today.
His acquaintanceship around the world is greater than anyone else in the country in agricultural circles.
What would it do to the other farm?
He would accept it.
Till Campbell thinks that you can't appoint him.
He thinks because the farm here wouldn't like it.
Got it, sir.
Yes, sir.
Yes, sir.
Yes, sir.
Yes, sir.
Yes, sir.
Uh, if you want to let me, uh, complete, uh, uh, a new name, it's Paul Gifford.
It's, uh, uh, we brought in a very great, you know, uh, an iron man.
Oh, yeah.
He's just fantastically good at information.
Uh, he's probably has more nameless association
identification across the department of anything else would be considered.
But, uh, I don't think he ran, but, uh, if you were, yeah, if he didn't have a background, he would have walked out.
It's all right.
It's all right.
And, um, then, uh... Well, you were wrong.
Yes, I know.
Here you go.
Here we go.
Yeah.
One of my closest friends, I think I would say, was an eight-gallon basketballer.
He would be named.
And then I could not be even down.
I don't think that's a relationship with you.
He is a good man to you.
I think that was what I grew up with.
He's not a farmer, but he's been there a long time.
John Love is a strong man.
And I think he was a couple of years ago he was confirmed.
But he's been about nine, 10 years as governor.
Yeah.
I don't know where he thinks he's headed.
Uh, but, uh, I found John.
Where is he?
In the apartment?
Yeah, over there.
In the apartment?
Mm-hmm.
I didn't know he was right over there.
Mm-hmm.
But he's absorbed a lot of farm stuff.
He's here.
He's been governed.
And, uh, I found him.
I don't know him well, but I found him on the internet as a direct.
Well, it's great work.
All business is, uh, you know, and I've been to farming.
He's been out there.
And he seems to wear it very well with him.
So that would be impossible.
If you just wanted to get somebody in there to go out and campaign like him, or build him one of the departments.
Of course, he played the best campaigners, I think, probably Bob Hill over in Madrid.
Yeah, but he's, uh, he's not armored.
Oh.
And, uh, but he's great.
He's a fine campaigner, but he was not, uh, he was not, uh, he sort of, I think, was a campaigner for, uh, for his own purposes.
No.
Donald Johnson, you mentioned, was a 40-year-old black farm boy.
And, uh... Go ahead.
Yeah.
I mean, I'll give you two.
I'll give you the two best ones.
Uh, well, if you look at 45, you've got Donald Johnson and the Federalist Administration.
who is an island farm boy.
I understand that the farmer here is a boy.
I think that's right.
But I think he's done a pretty good job.
He's done an excellent job.
He's done an excellent job.
Yeah, he's done an excellent job.
Looks like a farmer.
Looks like a farmer.
Looks like a farmer.
Looks like a farmer.
Looks like a farmer.
Looks like a farmer.
Looks like a farmer.
Looks like a farmer.
Looks like a farmer.
He's just wanted to stay for 40 years old.
The young man who's got to work in the department is Clayton Geiger.
At that age, he is a farmer.
He's operating his own farm in Nebraska right now.
He's head of one of our agencies.
He's a lawyer.
He's a PhD in economic economics.
He is the smartest working man in our country.
I have a lot of political experience.
We almost hired him here if he was overqualified.
Well, it's true.
For the job that I had open.
Yeah, he's very attractive.
Very attractive guy.
What's his wife like?
Tell you, your wife should be hard to replace.
That's the problem.
She's got a darn hard to follow.
That's what he's saying.
It's going to be hard to follow.
How much?
Well, this guy, Uterus, is an interesting guy.
He's been in South America.
I saw him yesterday, and he said, well, I was out over the weekend on the farm, and I was trying to buy some corn.
And he said, don't believe all that stuff I'm telling you.
I couldn't buy any for less than $1 a night.
He's a working farmer, there's no question about that.
He's got a lot of, you know, electrical.
He's the best 40-year-olds that you've found.
You don't consider 40-year-olds your mom's function?
30 years ago.
So do I.
No, I, uh, I've done that for years.
Sometimes we really don't know who we are.
We have a tendency not to have fun with people younger than we are.
I know you.
Everybody says that.
It's wrong.
I don't feel that way.
But I frankly like to go over the younger guys myself.
We care.
We care to have farmers who are pretty old people.
That's true.
But they don't like to be people.
They like to be people.
They like to play the field, and that's what we are.
Now, this is the president.
Thank you.
Excuse me.
My name is Bryce Carlin.
I set out to claim to look at this process.
Thank you.
about the stitch of the future, I mean.
He's gonna meet Mitchell.
And we both came off with this guy, young, bright, real ambitious, and he's really interested in his job, because he thinks maybe he'd be a secular agricole someday if he took this job.
That's kind of the way we read it.
But the point that I made was that I think that going for a big supply,
This is better than, than just going through the, the, you see what I mean?
I mean, it's a, this is a, what are we talking about?
I, I, I don't think you ought to say, well, the guy hasn't been around long enough, and so forth, and so on, and so on.
Then, then, then he might have been around long enough, he's too old.
This guy's a striker.
That's a, he just, you can just feel it when you're with him.
Which is one of the reasons, frankly, that I didn't take him here, because he'd just be bursting through our ceiling, and we would have had to impose on him.
And it would have been a real frustrating experience for him.
Well, I don't know.
I don't know.
Well, part of the year, part of the year, left by the year, I just found him in the breast.
But I picked him out, and he was practically finished, too.
It was my next team to back him up on him.
and started moving him into jobs, giving him responsibilities.
And the governor foxed me up and took him into his office for the period there.
And then he came to me and wanted to go to South America.
I told him that wasn't what he ought to do.
And he said, I still want to.
I want to take him to .
He ran our program 50 people down there.
He ran that for two years.
And they loved him in South America.
And, uh...
Speak Spanish?
Yes.
Would you take this one in terms of the sort of decisions we have to make today in Congress?
Yes, he made this one.
He's the in-law of this one.
He understands that politics.
He understands that politics.
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And Roman got hurt and he asked about it.
Now he tried to lock me, but he gave it to the other person.
And, uh, he never offered it to me.
And, uh, so he was, he was, you know, something out of hurt.
He's hurt again.
Well, if you want to add anything, you want to add anything?
Yes, I agree.
Well, that's all.
That's all the thing.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
And, uh, I've had a hell of a time working for them.
That money came up during the, uh, the, uh, the, uh, the, uh, the, uh, the, uh, the, uh, the, uh, the, uh, the, uh, the, uh, the, uh, the, uh, the, uh, the, uh,
All he had to do was point out to the farmers that the question was given to the president.
And they loved it.
Furthermore, he was slicing the chaff very well.
He would mess up the food.
He would get scared in the ears.
He would know nothing about that rum.
And he would do the outside work extremely well.
Yeah.
And, uh,
No, you can do this on me.
Well, when you get back, we'll, uh, we'll chat again.
Be back in, uh, ten, in ten days.
That's enough, then.
You know, it should really get down to a few.
It's very important.
But I can tell you that it's not easy.
He would appreciate it.
He would get something from me.
He's that kind of guy.
Right.
There's no one that's going to be greater than me.
Well, he has spent a lot of his time there.
You know, uh, can I still count on, uh, if we can get another count of 15?
I think we probably can.
You know, we can.
Well, we'll work on this while you're gone.
We'll just start killing right through these things, and I'll try to reach some sort of a, you know, conclusion.
We've got to, we've got to deal with it.
And I want to be sure, first action, we're ever doing anything to get it back, because then we're not going to have something predated to do.
The thing that I was thinking about was the fact that I'm not just defending myself, but I'm trying to get out the time again.
Oh, and that's one of the reasons why I think it's very important to wait until your success is ready.
I think it's, uh, we say that we recommend that you inhale fire.
As a matter of fact, if the rumors start to float, we can kill them by saying, well, we hope not.
That's right.
instead of faculty.
Well, we will say that.
That will be our line here.
No, sir.
I'm not in a position to comment.
Yes, sir.
Well, I would say yes.
I'd say, uh, let me see if I'm in a position to comment.
That's a competition.
You just have to say no.
Well, I want you to lie.
Why don't you just say what you're lying about?
Could I say this?
We've had some conversations.
That's right.
You could say, well, you don't know, see, just say that the, you could say that I, uh, I would say that my company's margin, but the, uh,
It'll happen.
Mr. David, what I mean is an opportunity or somebody has struck you or the...
But nothing has been finalized yet.
I have a conversation with the company.
Yeah, that could be fine.
You had an outside offer.
You had a very attractive outside offer, but the president has asked you, and you are the president, he's asked you not to accept it at this time.
Thank you.
All right.
What I want to do is sit here.
the hell out of here so that they don't have to hear the conversation and all that stuff.
That's all we're going to do with the press.
The press just take a picture of this press team and it's over, let alone the NACO and the president and the whole thing.
It's my guys.
And they're going to tour the White House afterwards.
Thank you.
Well, uh, I just thought maybe we could do the picture over here today.
Oh, sure.
There's a painting this year.
It would be a photo opportunity.
There's a young fellow who works hard at it.
He had a six-pound main carrel.
Wasn't that right?
He was a hand-to-a-star main carrel.
All right.
Come on.
We just want to go over it.
All right.
All right.
All right.
All right.
Now here we have the Scouts.
Where are you from?
Oh, here, down here.
Right here.
Thank you.
All right.
I'm quite excited.
Where are you from?
I'm from California.
Oh, we got you one from California.
All the way from there.
Well, I'm glad to hear it.
I used to live very close to home a few years ago.
Where are you from?
I don't know.
The city of brotherly love, right?
And Baltimore.
The Orioles fans, right?
That was a close game last Tuesday.
They should have knocked that one.
Now, we have all these boys right here.
You want to set this up?
Thank you.
Yes, I will.
All right.
I'll stand right here.
I've got to make a big hand.
I've got to make a big hand.
Fine, fine.
I'll come in here.
We're here for two persons.
We want to award you the Silverbuck Pro.
The highest award there is $40,000.
and the only descendant of those who live in our family country is our employer.
We've done that not only for the boys and us, but for the boys and us as well.
We're also here to talk to you about operating the fleet.
I would like to present Clint Starr, the chairman of our national board of honors, who will lead the presentation.
Mr. President of the U.S. Embassy in the U.S. Embassy in the U.S. Embassy in the U.S.
It's a personal challenge to let the great government of America to initiate a project to save our American people that involves 6 million jobs and is consumed in life.
At the first meeting of the 4th National Congress, we challenged these people to work for the world.
They are going to be required to help America maintain its strong national defense, I agree.
They are looking for a peaceful world.
Some of these are going to be required to make sound changes to America's economic plan.
And all of those are going to be needed to finish the character of this country.
Yes, Mr. President, we have served and inspired you.
No, it's not.
Well, then you're okay with it.
I mean, I can tell you about it.
Thank you very much.
I have one for you.
You can't give me a specific one.
Here's one.
Thank you, Justice Scott.
I suppose I encourage young Americans to find themselves a service, besides voluntarily engaging in drunkenness, and helping them lead a better life.
So this is Mr. Clark.
Thank you.
Now, we've got an interview, folks.
Mr. Lane, correct?
Mr. Michael, who is our chairman of our nation's news hall.
Mr. President, we thank you for that.
We'd like to hear from you.
We can't respond.
We made a report to the nation's news last February.
And maybe we could make a bit of a big report to you about the progress of our nation's news.
All right, Captain.
I'm going to study, again, I'm going to study about our nation's news.
but it seems important to us that we not only make a stand for each other, but that we help each other stand in some way or another.
things like real things, and we need to be fine, fine, and full of strength.
We need to follow something beyond ourselves, something that can give us a sense of worth, and things that don't have to be made.
to help each other reach the world and find these things.
Operation Region 4 trains with explorers and scouts to the globe and out.
The President of the United States of America.
In fact, it was the nation's instead of the two, it was all the scouts, you know, carrying on with the program.
It was pretty awesome.
I mean, that's a fine statement.
You have a positive answer, rather than just thinking in that progressive direction.
I've noticed that it's been a very effective program.
You know, it's a spot.
I saw the World Series.
I saw it with my own eyes.
You know, and also the football.
You know, they make these great plays.
And, you know, so, you know, what do you think of those acts?
You know, I think it's, you know, it's been a reach.
You know, it's been a reach.
You know, people...
Well.
You'll have one of those for every one of you.
Let's see, for the, uh, for the other two, you have, uh... Oh, that's right.
You've got, you've got that for everybody.
Oh, good, good.
My inspiration, music is the writing.
I mean, you're gonna get a special, you're gonna find a comedy event.
You, you, you're like, you got a nice, you and my name together, I wish.
But we'll get you a special tour, not for once.
You know, you have to go to the theater, see what you like to do.
You see all the famous roles.
All right.
Thank you.
Well, thanks for coming in.
I do appreciate it.
Well, we all of you are just waiting, waiting.
Yeah, it's not.
Thank you.
uh... uh...
Cigars aren't supposed to kill you.
You've got to drink them.
You've got to be alive.
You've got to be alive.
That's the way.
That's the way.
Now, here's to the baby.
Thank you very much.
And to the bomb.
There you are, Randy.
That's Randy, sir.
Thank you.
Okay.
And, uh, very nice to talk to you.
How do you feel?
I don't know what to think about it.
I don't know what to think about it.
I don't know what to think about it.
I don't know what to think about it.
I don't know what to think about it.
I don't know what to think about it.
I don't know what to think about it.
I don't know what to think about it.