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Good.

That's all.

He wants to request a couple points.

I just don't get the promise.

Yeah, we're working on it after the trade mission type thing.

We're all in on that.

Just so you know, we want to work something out.

Don't get into the John Rawlings question, because there's a battle between Stans and Rawlings, apparently.

Between Tom Evans and Stans.

Rollins, it now turns out, would like to be finance chairman, if he is.

But he didn't want to be asked by Dole.

And I don't know whether we want to get into that.

I'm trying to sort that out with John Mitchell and all the characters concerned.

But we should get into what stands.

Well, just let it stand.

I'm just telling you.

Oh, Christ.

Yeah.

Yeah, well, it's just how I, you know, all right.

All the reports don't happen again.

I want to catch it before he comes in and raise it.

Unless you want to just raise it with him yourself.

I forget.

All right.

Why is it possible to fix that up?

It is.

Let me tell you why I had mine.

I'm going to be quite candid about you.

I spent three-fourths of my time on the EOB.

I use this office and I'm going to use it now only for formal purposes because I don't like, I don't like talking to people in here, you see.

So I'll go over there.

Not everybody else maybe wants to show their goddamn asses over here to prove their big shots, so I'll have them sit over here.

You know what I mean?

And I'll be over there.

So it's just fine.

And I realize, but you see, you've got, you've got a bench going out, you've got a rub stall going out.

Who's coming in?

Why, who fills our office?

Ash and Schultz.

Well, Schultz takes the line under our office.

Weinberger got an office here.

Oh, yeah.

You know, I beat her up.

There's always an office here.

She should be in here.

We'll put her in this room, in this office, this building.

That's what I do.

Right.

What hurt?

I think the woman thing, frankly, and this is a question on her part, thinking it means anything at all, she can give an answer, but it holds up.

All states.

You look at our case, it means something.

You look at it on the basis of our income, which is really what concerns me.

We're a hell of a lot better off to have her in the White House and have that word be out than we are to have a couple of George Shultz's assistants in the White House.

Hell yeah.

And that Shultz's assistant would be a hell of a word.

That's really what a very good department or the EOB or anything like that.

And if Shultz has a problem with that, then Shultz can put his office over to the EOB.

Which he ought to do anyway.

Where the counselors are.

Sure.

So, uh, I agree with you on that.

Well, it really shouldn't.

It's better to have that group in here.

We're going to work the way we're talking about.

But he doesn't need officers for assistance.

She doesn't want a big office or anything.

She said, just get us, she said, just put a cubbyhole in or something.

Well, you can't do that.

Well, you know you can't do that because you're going to have somebody else down there.

Well, but she's got to, when she has people in here, she's got to look like she's in a decent office.

She can't put her in a closet somewhere.

Yeah, that's right.

No, they were gonna, they had a plan for changing the stuff around up there to get their own supporting staffs in.

They don't need that much.

They were gonna go to conference room and do this and do all that.

Shit.

Now go over to the OV for their conferences.

On your own, okay.

They're all quiet.

You can use your offices for a conference room.

Kevin got through us a number of times.

You told him to use the cabin room for some of this.

Okay, keep your phone on the side.

Good.

Pete, tell him to tell him that.

Because I know this office correctly.

I listen to everybody.

I said, I have this little place and that little place and that little place and an aide here and a secretary here and all that asshole stuff.

Well, it isn't just awesome.

It isn't awesome.

A lot of it is.

Believe me, I did say it.

uh the uh it's rose in here yet but go ahead and see get those two checks that i suppose that i asked march about last night if i have any

I was just trying to plan something upstairs to put her in there.

I just want you to be calm about that.

I was going to be without bothering you with it, but I was going to blame it on you because that's the only thing I can do.

That's why you've now said it.

I only said it.

She didn't raise any religion.

I said she'd talk to you about it.

I don't know if it can be done, but if it can, she thinks it would be awful if not.

Well, the argument the other way, which I came down, as I said, I was in the process of doing that this morning, but the argument the other way is that the other three counselors will be over in the EOB.

I mean, it doesn't make sense, but she's totally different.

That's right.

She's a full-time counselor on the White House staff.

The others are part-time counselors.

Now, the others are actually in a totally different situation.

That's my point.

That's why she's not here.

That's my point.

Thank you.

Well, I don't know what you're saying, but the president did not commit it to her.

He wanted her to have an office, and we've got to work it out so she doesn't.

That's pretty hard to say she shouldn't.

Thank you.