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I had, when I was a congressman, I had one of the first entities that arrived in Washington, and it was the Robertsville Ravens.

I don't know whether they're having any guests, or the OAS, or whatever it is, but you can't ask them to come.

Well, mostly, those people, but we did have a rock and roll, and I guess that's why they were adding Mrs. Bacon.

Mrs. Bacon could be added.

And they also include rock and roll on the Mexican data.

I think we ought to be able to run on that, you know.

It would be a nice time to have him and his wife do a dinner.

I think we ought to have a bench.

I think we ought to have a pond.

The L.A.S.

Yes, Mrs. Bacon.

And when you go to you and call her and say that the President would call on you to be back there.

Well, you know, she wants him to get that medal, which is still kicking off.

Well, I'm going to give him the medal.

That night.

I am.

I know the rules and the suggestions here that it will be done.

And I said, how was it?

I think if they have nothing else to do with the OAS, they'd like to see the Medal of Freedom given to the great, great, great artist.

You can say it, but don't tell her.

No, I can say it internally.

He is going to get the Medal of Freedom, but that's only for your own information.

And don't indicate it's going to be done that way.

Don't tell her.

I'll just tell her he's going to be here.

He's going to be behind.

Another one that I think would be good to have is I think the old place where the grandchild was killed and so forth.

And my daughter, Jason's wife, is a personal member.

We've had the other dentists, you know, past.

We had to change it to the church.

The church was not quite the same.

We didn't run on these lights, but it was to a Christmas reception.

Quite different.

Yeah.

But see, he was on the Rockefeller trip.

Yes.

And so that's that.

The kids probably on the main line.

Great, great, great, great.

That's marvelous.

Right, and another thing on that one too, we'll have some after dinner things, and that would be a chance to get in touch with people around the country.

Well, I bet, I don't think we can stop it too much.

There aren't really that many goofy people.

Not really, but on the other hand, the lack of caregivers gets more and more and more impossible.

I'd rather have, of course, the safest thing is to have a single witness, but I don't think I'm made.

What we might consider this time is to have the

The Army Corps is just fantastic.

They're so good.

I've seen them in West Ponder, Navy, Naval Academy.

I don't know if they're that good.

I don't know whether they're Navy or the Service Academy.

One thing, I am very, very much a stickler.

I don't like entertainment unless it's the best.

I mean, we have many friends, you know, and they're just a little below the second level.

And if we had something every month, then you can have me for a second.

But like her, I mean, everything for her is just very good because she is the best at her time.

And you know what I mean?

That's why we're here.

I know, for example, that Ben Radin's old apartment is very dirty because we don't have his wife sitting on top of that.

Oh, yeah, it does not, yeah.

Or else I heard her at the Met.

She's here if I'm on there.

I can't have her down here for that matter.

It's not fair to her to sit there.

She's washing her hands and fingers.

I know.

I'm trying to be quiet.

I don't know.

Well, they'll go around doing country.

We invited them for dinner a couple of times.

They've been on tour.

Well, if they're going to try, they'll try right away.

They wait until late a couple of times to try.

I wonder if you could check on that, to see, you know, they do that over in East Lane.

Yeah, they have to wait until it's okay over here, but I'll tell Lucy to go ahead.

Well, ask Lucy.

Ask Lucy, who do you have in mind?

Would you do that?

And that, uh...

I make them a few because I don't want to have any more of those fairies dancing around.

No, I know, but they need to get an offering back to get anybody who's... Well, just see, I'd like to try to start a Catholic wedding for the Catholic.

It'd be a little bit gay.

I think it would be very good.

I do.

I think it would be very good.

Well, it was a nice dinner last night for all those people.

Okay.

This is longer than 88.

It was mostly based on dead person here.

Serious?

Fantastic.

It was a good group, you know.

It was a good group.

It is something I want to do very often.

I don't seem to know how people sell them.

I guess I used to do it, remember?

We used to go out to those vice president years.

But I don't think I could do a dinner with my president.

responsible there's more than once a week well you have too many responses well i did for example the dinner last the night before and i did one last night and uh and frankly uh you know many people go out to dinner some of our people take some of the dumbest invitations i've ever had but you see the problem is that

and after dinner i'm going to talk to everybody

what we said and what we're trying to do with the world.

I think I work a little more than some men, but nevertheless, I do think that Mrs. Longworth, if you'll make it, doesn't have anything more to say about something like that.

But he does...

He does very interesting things.

He has people in fatigue at 5 o'clock sometimes.

Someday, on the days, you know, 5 o'clock, he might just, I don't know, he might just decide, I think I'll just go over there.

It's rather fun to go over this.

and some people would just sit and talk and laugh a little over a half hour and have a cup of tea or a glass of coffee.

You know what I mean?

That's really fun.

It's like the great Grand Dom of the old times.

I wouldn't do it for the patients.

She would invite a lot of people.

She didn't save up the credits.

You just call her that day.

You could say that he might be free to come by.

She'd say, would you like somebody?

You know what I mean?

Would you have her mind?

I mean, where I had an idea, it had to be clear.

Lucy, Lucy, of course, versus Pat.

So we had dinner the first night.

He came in after he wanted to have an exemption.

I was pressured all through the rest of those years.

the only time that they i guess they have never impressed me since then i mean i believe i've been to dinners all over the world i've never been impressed by one since i left the vice president never we went to two minutes that's right see that's why i and i think you would rather say don't not have very many cabinets and try not to repeat some people

The reason you can take a good crowd together is when you have people who are coming and it is a big thrill.

Yeah.

And, and the Broadway crowd.

It changes the character of the group.

It changes the story.

If you've got a group of there that have never been there before, they, they're thrilled and they share everything.

It's like having a, it's like having a party with the members of the press.

It is unbelievably dull and horrible because they're all supposed to be cynics.

And they act that way.

And it's like having frankly too many government people.

Because the government people think it's their do.

And they're nice, I don't mean that, but you know what I mean.

They just aren't going to get off their hands and shoot.

No, and they're not going to show excitement because they have to be much more sophisticated than that.

Before I tell you, some of these people have commented on those things, like I said, in the same sense.

Yeah, we got quite a few people going into that.

Did you say that not the labor people came?

No.

Okay, one man was an assembly of government employees.

I don't know if that's the right way to put it.

I wonder if there was a question of the...

I'll give you the names of them.

You checked with Colson, didn't you?

Well, I told them.

I told them they didn't come.

I called them every day and said every one of those people has regretted it.

Yeah, you did?

All right, I'll ask them about it.

Well, they assumed...

In my office right now, they're going to go up to the Capitol.

I think they're still there.

It's Julia Meaden, her husband, and two little girls.

They don't know what you're doing right now.

They didn't ask you.

Remember the red-lighted television?

She used to be on that.

She's a pretty girl.

She used to be on 8,000 shows and 30 all-American type of get-all television shows.

Well, she's been Andrew's client.

She's married to Russ.

I don't think you know him.

You probably met him at one of the little parties.

You know Bud Meade, the guy from SDM.

That's the one.

You know this one, too.

She's here with her husband and two little girls.

She gave them a special tour.

No, she saw it on your back.

Why don't you go out and forget that the photographer hasn't come in?

Well, is that going to hold you up tonight?

It's all right.

It won't be no problem.