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How do you think of the, uh...

The election they had.

I would certainly, it's a new one, it's what it holds, that's fine.

I would certainly know, be sure to go to the rest of these people who've done this goddamn thing.

I mean, that's something that, frankly, with Eisenhower, Bob, they did it one time, and I remember the sons of bitches didn't come in, they never got a picture.

You know what I mean?

You can do them all here.

You could have Tyler in every morning for breakfast and every other night for dinner and he'd say, why don't you ever have me for lunch?

That's just John's stock and trade.

It's his way of working.

It's to keep the kind of man that he is.

Keep the medieval treasure.

But you also do one other thing.

In the study of agencies and so forth,

There are a lot of little things that are stuck in the cracks that we don't know about that I want the boys to get at.

One is the emergency control agency, which is Jackson Creek.

I told you.

And that budget, that is $9 million.

So there's a lot of people.

First, I've got to know how many people there, and I really want to know, are appointed by me or the Secretary of State or the Acting Director.

In other words, how many are subject to

Second, then it's like the CIA, that none are subject to change.

Then what we do is we, of course, will cut the son of a bitch in question right down to the nut and not allow any jobs to be built and so forth and so on.

What I have in mind is that a number of these agencies like that, we can have it double-stranded.

We can have it delivered.

We can have it, say, at 50%.

say we want to cut a 50% by, not by ripping, but by simply not replacing.

And then where it's like, maybe not Social Security checks, we don't have any checks.

See my point?

We know there are differences.

Where there's a curve, in other words, where it's a think tank, basically, a policy-creating thing, there should be a 50% cut.

Cut the son of a bitch to the heart.

Where it's basically an operating agency.

then maybe it requires a few more.

Although even there, I think if you cut down some of them, they do while they're outlawed there, you can make efficiency use.

Our problem is, at the moment, you've ordered the cups, and I noticed this when we were at Weyberg's, and what happens is that the vacancy hits,

cut the operation, and those people that are on the creative side, we want to get the, and it's the creative side that we want to cut.

So, if you could start with that, that would be helpful.

What do you think?

Absolutely.

That is what I'm talking about.

You think he understands your...

Yeah, but I think we've got to end this.

You see, look, every now and then our department, we've got all the other people that grab your meeting.

Well, here's what you would do in the White House.

I can assure you, you would say what they would do.

They'd say, well, we'll cut the numbers, the monitors, and the number of the waiters.

And Matt says, that doesn't matter.

You may need more monitors or more waiters, but they'll leave a lot of people at the higher levels.

Right.

Right, right, right.