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He's very much was fantastic with it.

And he said an interesting thing.

He was, of course, quite young.

He was a Russian in 1959.

And he was quite honest.

He said, because I am a very, frankly, strong state of the exposition, you know, pro-war, Marxist, and so forth and so on.

The interesting thing was that he said, I'm not part of it, but I'd like to be part of it.

Because he liked it.

You know, it's always up.

It's always up.

And also, as you said, you've liberated Russia, but what you did to Pekin, you're preventing the U.N.A.

from controlling Americans now to express themselves.

Yes.

I hope this is done.

Well, that guy was a Russian.

that I think are very important.

First, we've got to maintain this, and I know it's difficult and very touchy and direct, but we've got to maintain the responsibility of the chiefs to have direct contact with the president.

But that of course raises some problems here and there.

But it doesn't as far as I'm concerned.

Because what is important to me is that the chiefs have got to have this contact.

Otherwise, you cannot in a real sense let the president just command your chief.

and in a real sense, the Secretary of Census's command.

Yes, Secretary of Census.

They're all quite crazy about it.

Well, that was the law.

You see, they say, now the President's command, and she, well, the President's command, well, God, man, think about military events.

So, he cannot meet his responsibilities as Commander-in-Chief unless he has direct contact with the military.

And I think the Secretary of Defense should remember we've got that set up for that purpose.

There's got to be some contact.

Now, the other thing is that

Secretaries of Defense will bear with you.

They'll bear with you.

And we understand that.

But the owner, the Secretary of Defense, is not elected by anybody.

He has no responsibility as Commander-in-Chief.

The President's got responsibility.

Now, for example, just so we understand, a total of a janitor is apparently a skeleton, but you can work it out.

And you're over here for a very long time.

other than anything.

You just time it.

Now you can work it out.

And you don't need to report anything to that attorney.

I don't want you to do any dishonesty.

But I've got to have some opportunities to discuss things, to get it, to mark off what some of this stuff or all of this other is that you better quote with expression.

Now this is what you have to do.

I don't know why I'm catching hell.

I'm already going to hell for it.

You can depend on me.

I think that's the way it is.

I don't want you to say a little things that I'm talking about.

This is me.

I'm talking to you.

Part of it is that we've got to ask you this.

You've got to know this.

If there's any problem with the secretary, it's Henry's job.

The work goes out if he can't.

And if he can't, I will.

But God damn it, there's nothing I can do.

Now, Henry, if I got this thing clear, now do you have any trouble?

Oh, absolutely.

I would ask that you agree with the president.

But since you're specifically so confident that on the occasion that Tom can't come in here...