 Fine. I just wanted to thank you for a very magnificent and masterful address. Thank you, Walter. It really was tremendous, and I want you to know that it was just tremendous response at the end and when I introduced you. Well, we heard it back here, and I heard what you said to your boys, the students that were there. Now, there were 20 kids that came in, you know, and we had a good report on them. We had a good report on them, and they are, you'd be surprised where it started. You would you like to know? Yeah, I would. Democrats faction. They got word from your people. They received information. They passed it on to the Mike Hannon for Congress Committee. He is a Los Angeles Police Department officer that's under suspension. As a result of his participation in various demonstrations during 65, the committee in turn contacted the W.E.B. Du Bois Clubs of America and Los Angeles immediately. And these are the University of California group. These organizations immediately rushed into special meetings during the afternoon and evening of May the 19th. They decided upon this action to be aimed at the President of the United States. Members of the Du Bois Club contacted the Freedom Now Committee, which met on the afternoon of the 19th. They above mentioned organizations resolved that they would throw this picky type demonstration around the President at Long Beach. And it should be formed at approximately 2 p.m. May the 20th. Continue throughout the day. Continue in the evening following the President to the airport. Two members of the Freedom Committee reported they were in contact with a certain United Auto worker delegates who were very much in sympathy with them and aiding them and the anti-Vietnam protesters who would be participating. The theme of the picnic, they said, would be in war in Vietnam now. We had a man with them during the whole thing. That is going on, Walter, pretty well. You are an old hand at this. But that is going on every place. My problem last night was, you see, I couldn't get a hold of it because it was the middle of your speech. I thought you handled it perfectly, what you said at the end, that this is our meeting and not theirs. But let's not descend to their level. Let's not descend to theirs. That's not what we did, you see. Then they lost their interest. Then they get up and left. What have we ignored? Have I said to these fellows, look, they can pick it, but they have no right to disrupt our meeting. And if they don't behave, let's just ignore them. And at that point, our crowd did. I think that was right. You heard the response. It just sharpened up the kind of support that they gave you there. That's right. And I thought that the reception was good and they have asked me. I just finished the press conference a minute ago and they were commending the speech. And I pointed out the leadership, what we had done. They asked me to come over, one of the fellows from London paper and NBC and CBS2, and make a recording of Portion's office speech for their Sunday shows. And I'm going over to the recording. It's a tremendous speech. And what we're going to do, we're going to print it up with a little booklet that we got out for the award that we're giving you. And it'll make it a very beautiful thing. And then I, it's your convenience. I'd like to bring my other officers and we'll commend the White House and make it a print. We just love it, my friend. And we'll be waiting. And you just tell Belmore you're some day that's convenient and get your best people and we'll take whatever time you need. And I'm very indebted to you and the people this country are for your social consciousness and what you do. And I'm glad that you just don't take one little bitty thing about whether you get $4 more for painting a building and make that the only issue. I'm glad you had a student sick people and mentally retarded and in beautiful things and in better roads and better schools and better churches and better foreign relations and better understanding of the world and so forth. Well, what the 14B mentality doesn't understand is that nobody can make progress except that everybody makes progress. And I'll tell you what you liberals got to understand. You just got to understand this. The things you've been talking about all your life back God, I've done them in two years. Now you've got to get another program and come on and let's get it and get started on it and quit belly aching about something like 14B. If you'll just tell me what we're going to do, our life expectancy is over 7D and we'll hit 80 and let's see what we're going to do with these folks. And we're just using half of our potential but we've done nothing about studying. What are you going to do about these kids' teeth? What are you going to do about these little kids' eyes? My daughter Lucy comes from a daddy. It makes 150,000 a year. And for three years she is making C's and D's and flunking out because one eye is looking one way and one the other. Now third of the kids in this country got problems like that. We're doing nothing about it. That's what we ought to be working on. They up here raised in the hell with me, Joe Rowell yesterday said Johnson sent his civil rights bill to the Congress too late. But instead of abusing me and tearing me down and making me weaker and joining with the Dixiecrats and criticizing me, he knew that I had to incorporate in this bill the Supreme Court decision. And when it came down, I had to take two weeks. The lawyer just couldn't rewrite it. But he likes to show his independence and jump on me. But if they want to, they ought to march into this town and help me get that bill passed. They all say, well, let the president pass it. Well, I haven't got that power. I just got to have some help. You've got to get some people into this town. These liberals have got most of their program passed. So they're paying no more attention to supplemental land. They're paying no more attention to the improvements in the administration of Medicare. They're paying no more attention to elementary education. They just all fight about making speeches. And you've got to get that crowd. I'm here to make speeches. You know, I went over, I don't know whether Harry McPherson told you or not, I went over to that Civil Rights Leadership Conference. Yes, sir. And I took them on. They had all the red hots. Yes, he told me. Harry told me. You get all these changes in the president's bill to hell with it. And so I took them on. I said, look, you have a right to fight for your amendment. I said, by God, if we don't get a single amendment in the president's bill, it represents a tremendous step forward. And we're going to go up there and work and fight for it. That's right. And we finally got them lined up. It's like pulling teeth. Walter, what they've got an idea of these boys, that they are super legislative tacticians. Now they really not. And they don't get a thing in the world by going a whole lot farther than the president. I think they make me weaker. If Bobby Kennedy and Joe Rao and Russell and Talmadge all hit me the same day that I am weaker the next morning than if just Russell and Talmadge hit me. And I think if they'd get up and say, I've got a hell of a good bill and we'll pass this one and we'll get another next year, it would be better. But they want to hit me. And I think pretty soon, both of them working on you, they get each leader down where he is not invincible. They did it with Roosevelt. They did it with Truman. They did it with Kennedy. He couldn't pass a large prayer with a lead pencil. And they will do it with me. Now to me it's not a wise thing to do. I think the party ought to get behind the platform and stay right behind it. Then if they want it more advanced, I'm willing to have a task force and sit down and work out one for next January. But they ought to be saying, well, he doesn't go year far enough. And they think that's the way to get him to meet it, but it's not. Well, look, the first job we've got, I don't want to hold you. I'm going to get a hold of my friend George Meany. And I'm going to say, look, goddammit, we're going to put together the Labor Democratic Party Johnson Coalition because we need that coalition. We can't even begin to make progress unless we're working together. And goddammit, we're not going to let cytospicketing and frustration over 14V stand in the way of the great society. You know what the story is this morning on my speech to your convention last night back here in the New York Times? No. The machinist man that installed you, spending his time talking about Johnson, not being interested in bills that were for labor. And the whole interview, Siegenthaler or Siegenbiller, and the whole damn thing was critical of the only guy that he's got to lead him. Now, it's just like you're questioning your mother and saying that she's got too long a dress and she doesn't wear enough lipstick and that she's got a cross eye. Hell, she's your mother. And what you ought to do is say, come on, mama, let's go. Yeah. Well, don't look at us. I'll be in touch with you. Thank you, Walter. I enjoyed it and I'm glad to do it. I think that we've got a lot to do yet and I think you take the running gears of that speech and we can write a new program that'll make the new deal, the new frontier and the great society ashamed of themselves. That's right. Well, I thank you again for bottoming my heart. Thank you.