 I might just add a couple of things on a personal note I mentioned about how President Johnson really just made you feel like a million dollars with your family. My parents from Muskogee, Oklahoma were visiting one time and they came to a signing ceremony in the cabinet room and President Johnson singled them out and brought them over and really made them as proud parents I guess to say what I was doing at the White House, etc. And I didn't really recognize that at that age but now I do having children of our own but my parents went back to Muskogee, Oklahoma to show you a father's perspective. I would get to the White House about 7 to 7.30 at the latest in the morning to go to the President's bedroom and go over the daily activities and I never left until about eleven sometimes midnight at night when the President went to bed and this occurred the whole time my parents were visiting me. So my dad goes back to Muskogee and tells all about the trip and tells about how President Johnson featured them at this signing ceremony in the cabinet room and talked about his son he said you know my son really works hard he said he goes to the White House every morning about 6.30, 7 o'clock and he stays there until 11 o'clock midnight he said you know what the President stays with him the whole time that's a parent's perspective which now I understand that I didn't at the time I was embarrassed by. Bobby had asked me about the relationship with Lady Bird it was a very interesting relationship. Lynn and Johnson I think relied on Lady Bird's judgment more than anybody else her instinctive judgment about people about things in general and I know when we would give a major speech or if we were going to the vanilla conference on Vietnam or various things like that the final person that he wanted to bounce off an idea or to bounce off the speech would be Lady Bird and she was an amazing woman is an amazing woman in that she just had an instinctive understanding about how to phrase something how to connect with people how to assess people and he really trusted that judgment and it was a love affair it was a complicated love affair but it was a love affair and a partnership that really worked. Other things there were so many I'm telling funny stories or at least to me were funny stories about Lyndon Johnson because I think this was the side of Lyndon Johnson that the public didn't know that only these tapes being released are giving some idea of what Lyndon Johnson was like or the many Lyndon Johnson's were like. He was very spontaneous in 1967 I think it was we had a Central American summit in El Salvador and we stayed at our ambassadors residence in in San Salvador and our ambassador was a fellow named Raul Castro from Arizona and President Johnson was had named him Ambassador to El Salvador and was about to or was reappointing him as ambassador to Bolivia and so we stayed there and among the people we found there was a Chinese house boy whose family was still in the PRC and and so somewhere in these conversations Ambassador Castro said that that this Chinese house boy was really terrific and that that somehow President Johnson ought to take him back to the United States and because he can't he was not going to go to Bolivia with Ambassador Castro I didn't know about this conversation and so the first morning of the summit the president of El Salvador calls on the ambassadors residence and the the two presidents in the back seats me and the jump seat and go down to the convention and so the president of El Salvador had some kind of a foreign aid grant request to for a few million dollars to build something in El Salvador so he wanted to take advantage of that time to kind of lobby President Johnson to get that request granted so as every time he get to the 10 million or however much it was appoint President Johnson interrupted him and would tell me Jim we got to we got the Chinaman going to take him back with us on the plane well I had no idea what he was talking about and I said of course Mr. President we'll take care of that everything's going to be fine well conversation we'll go back to this aid grant and get to that 10 million dollar request and again he had said now be sure the Chinaman's on the plane with us I said yes Mr. President we'll have him there well I didn't think any more about it the conference the summit goes forward and at the end of the summit President Johnson says to magnanimously to all the presidents of Central America says why don't you fellows ride back with me on Air Force One and we'll drop you off at each of your countries well they all accepted well this was totally unplanned and so we had to scramble to get Secret Service people and advance people to all of these other five countries and I plan a little ceremony at each of these countries so that was done on very short order we go after all the closing everything we go back to the residents and then to the Air Force One and all the presidents are there in the back in the President's President Johnson's quarters on Air Force One and I come in and he leans over to me and he said where's my Chinaman I said Mr. President I'm not sure I don't know what you're talking any erupts and he says oh I said oh that Chinaman these were days when that was not politically more political correctness in terms we're not I'm quoting now I said oh that one I said yes as a matter of fact we're gonna have him on a next plane to Washington well I go up to the front of the plane get on the phone and say you've got to get a plane down here and pick up this fellow and taking back to Washington so we we drop off each of the presidents at their respective countries and our advanced people had a little ceremony in one of those countries because President Johnson liked artwork from the places he visited they decided that to have their National Art Gallery take their prized artwork and and display it at this at the airport reception inside the terminal so we're going around with the president of that country and President Johnson's admiring the artwork and he stops at one he says I'll take this one well the jaw of that host company country president nearly dropped but that artwork is now at the LBJ library it's like the Mona Lisa of that particular country anyway we get back to Washington and and go to the bedroom the next morning and he says where's my Chinaman I said it's coming probably be here tomorrow you know well the he he picks him up that he's brought back this long at that time spoke Spanish and Chinese and no English he is taken from El Salvador to Washington taken up to the to the guest quarters of the White House that's his first time in the United States and and he's brought and I'm told of the next day that that he's here so I go to the bedroom and president says we're going over stuff and I said well you're as long as here he says great to have him brought in and so this little fellow who weighed a hundred pounds at most is brought in and he has two interpreters one speaks Spanish one translates in Spanish one in Chinese and so president Johnson went asking various questions and he would answer and he one interpreter would start with the translation and the second one would finish and finally you see president Johnson he said now why why you fellas why why one of you do it and he said well he starts in Spanish and he finishes in Chinese and as president Johnson said tell him when you start in Spanish you finish in Spanish when you start in Chinese you finish in Chinese in any event mr. Wong became on the personal staff of president Johnson and stayed with him right until his death and the good news is as I understand it mr. Wong's entire family was reunited and they're living in the United States and it was it was just a great experience let's see what other things that might be of interest there are so many that unless someone prompts something president Johnson is a practical joker which a lot of people didn't know one of the things he liked to do as both a practical joke and to move people forward in the 60s there it was a time of change in certain amount of social turmoil as you know and president Johnson wanted to bring particularly at such a devotion to civil rights and to to bringing about an equality among races well he he would show movies and the hanger at the at the ranch and he would invite invite people from town's people or friends of his who are Texans to come down and he liked to he liked to see their reactions if he pretended to go to sleep during movies but he would be secretly watching everybody else's reactions and a couple of those one was the graduate where it was a it was racy for those days and the other one was a guest who's coming to dinner which was an interracial marriage situation was a Sydney Pontier and Spencer Tracy and Catherine Hepburn and it was one of those cutting-edge movies about understanding race and what have you and he he really delighted in both bringing those movies and inviting people and seeing how they how they reacted in their attitudes fascinating person in every respect I don't think I'll ever meet or know someone who is multi-faceted who who had razor sharp mind a memory that wouldn't quit again going back to a White House experience and we were we were had had to send up legislation to to do something on the strategic reserve these are the special metals special minerals that we had in a strategic stockpile and we wanted to have some legislative changes to that and Joe Califano had been assigned that responsibility and Joe was having a difficult time trying to figure out on a couple of these rare metals or rare items that had been in the stockpile who knew what they were for etc and and he raised the issue and and President Johnson said well you know back about 30 years ago when I was a young congressman on the Navy sub on the Naval Committee there was a fellow on the staff who was an expert in these things and the last I heard I think he was living up in Maine or Vermont so they had the White House operators see if they can find him well Joe did they found him and Joe said it was remarkable he was surprised Lyndon Johnson were memory he was the expert on those particular issues and it said it solved the problem so he had a memory like that he also had an intuition and an instinct about Congress even though he had not been in the Congress for at that time roughly eight years he had an intuitive understanding of the web of the flow of congressional activity one of them had to do with them the appointment of the nomination of Abe Fortis as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in Homer Thornberry to take the vacancy the Supreme Court this was following Chief Justice Earl Warren's resignation and President Johnson assigned you know Cliff Alexander myself barefoot Sanders Joe Califano his his top team at the White House to make sure this got through the Congress and a Republican senator from Michigan Bob Griffin was leading the opposition to that and here we had the best talent and we really thought we knew what we were doing trying to garner votes and get an accurate vote count put count and I remember we'd meet periodically with the president and he would want a progress report and he was pushing us and and really prodding us to do these things well we had one meeting and we were giving him the report and we were still optimistic that we might win the vote and he said fellows you lost it said the tides turned the votes over and at that time we hadn't recognized it and we had been in contact and sometimes on the hill itself and President Johnson not having been there understood the flow of congressional activity and when tides turn etc and he still had that that sense that intuitive sense about the way Congress works and whether or not you could succeed there hi there's so many others I can't remember think of them all okay okay thank you great to see you