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I hope I didn't bother you, Carly.

Yeah.

Oh, that sucks.

I guess one of the things we've got to do now is fuck.

And I want to, just to know my feeling about it, which I know you would want to know, and I'm going to talk to you, because I've got to take this for a long time.

You have a very good reason to date me.

Yeah, the agreement that David sent is very significant, and it's a very good one.

I think you'll like it.

It'll help with some of your, shall we say, the...

very often.

Second, we have reason to believe, because we're also the second quite bold to talk with him than to talk with the Chinese.

It is only encompassing to us that the Chinese, that we've been in consultation with them on the Cambodian situation.

Now, as far as we're concerned,

present time as a matter of fact, we could cut back or even just continue D-52 rates, but we need to continue at least tactical air support at this time for the purpose until we get a settlement.

Now, I can't tell you that it's going to come tomorrow or next week or next month, but I can tell you that we have very, very recent to think that we can get one, provided we don't let everything go down the tube, everything

already taken to the House of the Supplemental, but rather to help prevent the House from going as far as the Senate went, any further.

And this, I can, let me tell you, this can be very much in the national interest.

Now, if it, if they move in the other direction, and I tell you, my mother, she's not doing this, it was in the other direction, I would have to, of course, veto whatever,

And you know what I mean?

I hate to do that on this particular issue.

And also, if it moves in the other direction, the responsibility for what happens, Carl, has to be taken by the Congress.

I don't mean the households like yourself, but you know, by the Congress.

But I just wanted you to know that whether it's on this thing or the continuing authority, that this is not just one of those other votes and the war and all the rest of it.

But it's very important this time to wrap this thing up.

Now, incidentally, I just looked at the morning report.

The ceasefire is the lowest number of violations that we have had in South Vietnam since the whole ironing began.

The Laotian people are, and they're slow, but apparently, in an inevitable way, are coming with something.

Cambodia is difficult because the Chinese are involved, as well as what they call the

and the present government.

But we are trying to pull them all together.

And we're working with the Russians, with the Chinese, and of course with the Cambodians.

But this is a critical stage.

And if we could just, if the House could hold on this, it could be a great service to the country.

So I just wanted you to know how I felt about it.

And understand how you think.

Gosh, I know that to have you take all this, well, the pressure's

tremendous.

But look, let me put it this way.

If you hadn't resisted, I put it quite bluntly, if you hadn't resisted some of these pressures in November and October of last year, those POWs would still be in that stinking cell.

Now that's how it all happened.

And someday I'm going to say that because these people that are

So I just wanted to say that and wish you the best.

Thank you.