 I can absolutely guarantee you about it. And that's the one to watch, it seems to me. Now, the rest of this stuff, hell, what can the guardsmen do? And they don't have any power. No, but if I imagine if they and the principal went to her and said, this is it, right, but she's leaving, I doubt, tomorrow. And she's going to be gone during this critical period, and I hope she'll stay away a little longer than planned, and that'll keep her out of it. And furthermore, she just doesn't want to do it. What would you think about the appropriate person in the committee calling her and asking her to be present and do anything that she'd be willing to do on the memorial evening? I don't know. I just can't. I don't want her to be in the position to say, well, nobody ever invited her. I just can't appraise that. It'd be a terrible, emotional experience for her. Well, that'd be up to her to say whether she did or not. But the question is, should she be asked? And I would think that to think about that and let's talk about four of the days over, because I'm fearful that she weren't asked. She'd say, well, they didn't even think enough to ask me to be present. Well, that's a good question. I don't know the answer to the moment. I'll call you before the end of the day. Now, I wonder if you don't think it'd be wise for you and Russ to get back to the speaker in Mansfield to call a group of 15, 20 people together from the Armed Services and Foreign Relations tell him what happened. As many of them are saying to me... Right. I've been thinking about this myself, and I thought that... They're going to start an investigation if you don't, and you've got Dirksen up there, and he's saying you've got to study further. And say to Mansfield, now the President wants us, you to get the proper people, and we come in, and you say they fired at us. We responded immediately, and we took out one of their boats and put the other two running, and we kept putting our boats right there, and they started to destroy. And I think I should also, or we should also at that time, Mr. President, explain this up plan 34A, these covert operations, and there's no question for what that had bearing on it. And Friday night, as you probably know, we had four T.P. boats from Vietnam, manned by Vietnamese or other nationals, attacked two islands, and we expended, oh, a thousand rounds of ammunition, one kind or another, and since then we probably shot up a radar station of a few other miscellaneous buildings, and following 24 hours after that, with this destroyer in that same area, undoubtedly led them to connect the two of them. Let's say that to Dirksen, and you notice Dirksen says this morning that we've got to reassess our situation, do something about it, and I tell him that we're doing what he's talking about. I was thinking doing this myself in personal business, but I think your thought is better. We'll get the group together. I believe it'd be better to do it up on the hill. I believe it'd be better if you'd say to Mansfield, you'd call a foreign relations armed services and get Speaker to do it over here. And just say it's very... I'd tell him off the quad, so they won't go in and be making much speeches. Tell Rusk that that's my idea, and he's in New York, so I don't know if he's got back. Well, I just talked to George Ball a few minutes ago. I'll have George arranged. I really don't tell him that, then I'll call the Speaker of Mansfield himself. Now, I wish that you'd give me some guidance on what we ought to say. I want to leave an impression on the background and the people we talk to over here that we're going to be firm as hell without saying something that's dangerous. Now, what do you think of the people that are calling me up? I just talked to a New York banker. I just talked to a fellow in Texas. They all, they will, maybe responded wonderfully, and that's good, but they want to be damn sure that we're firm. That's what all the country wants, because Goldwater's raising so much hell about how he's going to blow them off the moon, and they say that we ought to do anything that the national interest doesn't require, but we sure ought to always leave the impression that if you shoot at us, you're going to get hit. Well, I think you would want to instruct George really this morning at his news conference to say that you personally have ordered the Navy to carry on the routine patrols off the coast of North Vietnam to add an additional destroyer to the one that has been carrying on the patrol to provide an air tap and to issue instructions to commanders to destroy any force that attacks our force in international waters. Bob, if you don't mind, call Older Jenkins and tell him that you won't dictate this to me to give to my people or George Reddy because I'm over at the mansion with some folks here. I'm going to do it right now.