 Hello? Mr. President? How are you, Hubert? Well, I'm fine, and how are you? Oh, I'm just kind of broken up. I'm aching all over. I got a headache and my damn bones and hips hurting me, and I just, I'm just worn out. I just called you because I hadn't bothered you, and I didn't want to, and I didn't think it, I didn't think it was a good thing to do, but I don't want to tell you first, but I told anybody else that you had no orders, and you had no instructions, and you had no mistakes, and I just don't know how anybody could do anything better than that. Well, Mr. President, you're wonderful to be. We worked hard, and I enjoyed it very much. Well, you and your wife and your family are just perfect, and I was awfully convinced about the night I went up to Atlantic City, but I'm a lot more convinced tonight, and everybody makes some mistakes, and I've got to ride them out, and you've got to suffer with them and understand them, that you and me here didn't slip a barbell in your family, and I just wanted all of you to take whatever little comfort that you knew that Lady Bird and I loved you. Well, we love you, Mr. President, Lady Bird, and we've been thinking about you. I haven't wanted to bother you either. I knew you were on the move every day, but we've been keeping in touch with your boys. Well, that's the way it is. We've handled it. You've handled it just perfect, and I couldn't improve on it, and I just give you a double plus, and you'll probably never get that good a grade again. We're going to have a big victory tonight, Mr. President. I don't pass many of them out, but I feel that way about it. I hope so. I don't know. I'm sitting near the Lomathon Bay, and they're rubbing me. I got a bad hip. I've been standing on my right leg. Your hip ever hurt you? Yes, sir. I'll tell you, you know that I had a period in this campaign where I thought my hips and legs were going to kill me. Well, you just did the perfect. You wound it up happier. I told the press this morning you were happier. When you started ending, you were, and you started, and you were more effective. All that television, those television I saw, I didn't see them on TV, but I saw them on a practice thing ahead of time, and it was just perfect. Oh, you were so restrained and so effective. You looked like God just as fresh as a daisy. You must have done it. I felt good. I think we got some good licks in after West Coast, Mr. President. Well, I know. You seem like you had wonderful crowds. Yes, sir. We surely did. And I stopped by a Salt Lake City on the way home just to get in another punch or two on some statewide TV, and I was very careful and very restrained. I didn't go on any attack. I just talked about the issue of public morality in terms of public service. Oh, Hubert, I wish you'd see what these sons of bitches have done. They bought four full-page ads in most papers. Some of them just got 12 pages, some 16. Four full pages in this state, and it's all integrity and morality and Baker and Jenkins and Billy Saul Estes. I know. They had five full pages in the Los Angeles Times on Sunday. Five full pages. And they got out an instruction from the Negro Protective League that says that any Negro goes votes that the Protective League just wants to inform him as their friend. If he's ever had a traffic ticket, if he's ever been under suspicion, if he's ever been speeding, if he's ever had an over-parking ticket, if he ever hadn't paid his taxes on time, if he's ever been discharged from employment, that he'll have to report right away to the sheriff, and that these things will have to be settled before he can clear his record to vote. They put those out in all southern cities, just to mean this dirty, slow-down stuff that I heard. I ought to go to jail for it. It's just inhuman. Well, they've been doing it. I tell you, they were doing it out in the Mexican areas. The same thing in California. And I made several talks and teased appearances on the Los Angeles station, and I got some good cooperation from those commentators, letting them know that these people know that no one had a right to interfere with their right to vote, and that the Justice Department was standing by to make sure that the citizens' rights were being upheld. And we called Nick Canson back, and as you know, he issued some statement to the effect that the Justice Department was standing by to make sure that there was no interference with the citizens' right to vote. We got to set us up. The first thing you had to start looking about is how you're going to have a relationship with the Senate. Now, there's not going to be any jealousy between me and you. You know that. But I want you to try to figure out the problems we got, how we can get a committee chairman when they haven't got the three or four in there that's worth a good goddamn. We want to investigate these election things, and we want to have committees where we can refer things to that we knew something about. So we just ought to be thinking about who has the ability and who has the guts. That's right. If Howard Cannon's elected, he's won. Yes, sir. He's a good one. We've got a double. I tell you, one boy that's got guts, if you'll get in there and dig, is Johnny Pastore. Well, he won't do it. He wants this. He's got that Catholic wife, and he's got to get home every Thursday. Yeah, that's right. That's where you're so right about, Pat. Well, I'll look them over very carefully there. We're a little short on those kind of people. We've got to find them. And I'll see you now. We're going to have all of that 300 press down here. I'm coming down tomorrow. And you get in time for that barbecue. It's going to be out here at noon, and the helicopter. About 12.30. You let them know what time you're arriving and where, and the helicopter will bring you out to Houston. And then you just stay at home, and you feel like it. And bring whoever you want to. And thank your, uh, thank your sweet wife and all your children. Well, I will, Mr. President. And listen, you have good care. We're going to give them the damnedest liquor they ever had in their life. I don't know about that, but I hope, I hope that's right. How many states we're going to carry? I think you're going to carry about 40, 46. Okay. That we will. All right. Okay. And, uh, by the way, I just want to let you know that after the, uh, the latter part of the week, I hope to take off a few days. You ought to, you ought to. Now, what about that? You got to, you just got to. We're in trouble in Vietnam. Serious trouble. I told them to keep you informed. Yes, sir. Uh, we're going to have to hit back there. Yeah. Uh, the, um, uh, are you going to carry Minnesota? Oh, boy. I don't want to stop to do that optimistic, but we are carrying Minnesota by 250,000 boats or more. Out of how many? Out of a million three. That'll be the biggest one ever. Yep. We're going to get the biggest boat ever out of Minnesota. Well, now you encourage that tonight in all these states as a mandate because they're going to say, well, that's the meaning thing and so on and so forth. We're going to start that right away, Mr. President. They're going to do two things. They're going to say, boys, that even some of the distortion are going to say some of these papers say, well, this wasn't a mandate. This is just an anti-gold water. That's right. Now, what's the next thing they're going to say is, well, watch out for Humphrey. He's not going to be loyal. I'll bet one of those. Well, you just tell them that, uh, you just tell them that you've never seen such campaigning that people like Johnson. Like, God, you got the word. It's so contagious. You're loving yourself. Well, I want to tell you, Mr. President, that it comes that I can't be loyal to you while you just fire me. I know that. I know that. No, no, no. No, no. No papers ever going to come between us. Nobody else. Sure. You just tell me what you want me to do. Oh, goodbye. God bless you. Tell me or I'll call her. Tell me or I'll call her. Okay, I will. We went in, uh, me and my family went in 49 states and Mero took the 50th one. All right. All right. Goodbye. I'll tell her. God bless you. Bye.