 Well, you saw the times this morning they had a big story yesterday, and they got a big one this morning And they have canvassed the whole country and a majority of almost well is 17 percent against me Well, that's a relatively small percent For an incumbent 17 percent, but I think that you could start off just Unanimously with 11 states on the count of civil rights and that would include Texas Because Texas is not for civil rights currently is not for the Democratic platform He made speeches against Medicaid. They made speeches against Medicare. He went on television to oppose them all he made speeches against the the civil rights He made speeches against housing and made it in Asia and the Republicans in this state support him a hundred percent and So we've got 11 states so I'm surprised at 17 percent the very small number, but they conclude That 26 percent refused to commit themselves So 17 and 26 make it very doubtful That's their conclusion. That's the lead and Bobby Kennedy started it with King up in New Hampshire and with Hughes out in Iowa. Teddy's roommate Is Gone out there and set up statewide organization and he's a member of Congress Now we know what they're doing. We see it But these other dumb people that were down good many up down here never didn't know what the pigs were King and Hughes and one or two others at her Out in Missouri One of the boys of the National Committee went out there and set up a public relations firm that's financed by the Kennedy's and located in Kansas City and He's making his headquarters there for operations in other states kind of like that. They did up in New Hampshire in 1964 Vice presidential pictures on So that's what it is. They all might well recognize it for what it is I don't care if they won't destroy the Democrats or destroy the party and So I can't help it. I'm just gonna carry out the platform and continue to do what I can let everybody jump home and kick me around I've done nothing to deserve it. I've got a good record and I'm rather proud of it, but The times is run by a bunch of commies and they want to get out of Vietnam and yielded to them And I don't think I can quite do that They yielded this they want us to yield Cuba So they take my own people man's field for bright aching folks of that time They give me hell on it every day and they get that picture in the paper So it's just a question of trying to do what you think's right. That's what I'm gonna do and I appreciate your friendship and I'd rather rather sorry that you came up because I don't think you've got in the business and a crowd like that It's like the old dog prey you get in with a bunch of bad dogs Hughes or Hughes does he voted against the resolution civil rights continent. He's a guest those things he's a goddamn Republican running an hour and I've got letters from our chairman just raised in hell about his committee never having met they talk about the Democratic Committee Now I couldn't tell him But I went in to his state and I left him a hundred thousand dollars in cash Right in that damn little jerk state and in addition to that we contributed over ten to each one of his congressmen and in addition to that we went all over the state speaking and The reason he got elected because he's he pushes the Democrats and he's filed the Republicans. He runs on the Democratic ticket And it's it's a Republican state and I can't do anything about Hughes And I can't do anything about South Carolina and I can't do anything about Virginia and I can't do anything about Florida And I can't do anything about Missouri This hernes has been against this ever since he came in he wanted to dictate the poverty man So he could run a patronage thing and I can't I can't go Against Ed Long and Stuart Simon who in the Senate who would kill my father did they like just past it before vote but They were blown up much about nothing the way I see it and I think that In due time I'll have to just indict the whole damn doubt that on my side of it. I don't think that'll help But I think it's That's the way that going I will have to explain my position So we'll be in a tug-of-war between a bunch of the southern governors and then the rest of us on it and I guess I Guess we'll just turn it over to you I don't think we ought to see them I think the more contact I have with the governor, you know, I've had more than any more presence put together And it doesn't do anything but harm They come out and they're afraid some Republican in their states going to criticize them So they criticize me and they use my springboard as a launching power. You saw that damn deceitful her I asked any of them to get up and say anything they wanted to and he didn't have guts enough to do it They called a press conference after walked out of the hangar. Didn't you see that? Well, that's what he did and he took the whole story down here and the story was it's like God They were pursuing what they said is why it's over And that he wanted to know that Johnson was in deep trouble And the whole story from the ranch was just what he had said is why it's over because when I asked each governor to get up I want to be fair on each man to say what he wanted to But he wouldn't do it And then when he got out and all of us started to play and I was a host and I felt like I ought to Put Conley on his plane now to put the others and he came in a separate plane of the Northwest life insurance company And While I put them on he called himself press conference and he spoke for the whole group then by saying all up on happy And that they said just what they said is white sulfur and that this was a mess So I just think if I see any governor anytime anywhere about anything But I think it's going to promote a debate and so on so forth and I'm working on my budget and I'm working on my State of the Union and I'm grinding away day and night and I've got the Vietnam thing is going bad We've got the negotiations going but everybody is jumping in and saying the wrong thing at the wrong time New York time. It's got a man over there and I'd rather have a Soviet agent and So I think that Far as I'm concerned is not the thing I want the party I just want to do the best job I can that I'm gonna do and I'll do it whether without the governor I don't want any other sportman. Don't care. I just think that they hurt their party and hurt themselves with these food talks I Know I know your attitude. It's been a good fine hard-warming one, but Folks get over a bottle, you know, they do a lot of things and I think the damage was done when you let use come out There and say that after Romney met with his governors They were all unanimous and they hadn't done a goddamn thing my governor's met We had the finest program in history and done more to help their state Than ever before and put more money into their states got more people jobs Better coming out and saying that they came out and said their presence. Oh god damn good So you can imagine how your presence feels about that kind of meeting and everybody that I Don't know what it is. I've done. It's wrong according to any up south It's against the right But I even think they think I've got to do it That's the only thing I know. I don't know anything else. I've done this wrong. I Wouldn't retrace the damn step of it. Don't plan to You know the high regard I have for you and your wife and your family all of you and your state But I was pretty I thought I was pretty disgracefully treated I think he's just a plain damn traitor. That's what I think about you That shit ass came to my bedroom when I was sick over an hour And he did nothing but praise me and cussed the people of Iowa for dumbbells and said I ought to give our one dime And he left that night and went down there and presided over that week And he didn't tell him he's done my room an hour at least he didn't tell the president He made out like there's been no communication My whole damn week was ruined. I had to give it up to a bunch of the nincompoop politicians I spent I had seven different meetings with governors that week The ones that didn't have any communication Well, it's got downed out O'Connor came in that state over an hour during my lunch hour. I gave him my lunch I didn't even go to lunch that day Plus a four hundred million dollar atomic energy reaction And then he went down there and he said that he differed on this and he differed on that But I got out there for with him on a good many things and I just don't understand people that way Well, there's seven of them came by Connelly came and and not only came and spent the afternoon spent the night spent all the next day When he came down and had lunch with Frank Morrison and spent two hours with me and I just don't understand I think all of them want to get a little national publicity and then sell out to the Republicans and I imagine if you go down to the Montpelier whatever your paper name you can go down there and denounce your wife and get a page get a front page spread by saying that She's on offer somebody and that's what I consider they did to me. I Think you sold themselves for a little Little ABC stuff. You didn't I saw what you said. It was it was generous, but I don't want you to I know I'm unpopular. I know that I don't think it's unpopular They say and I think Bobby Kennedy had a couple of polls made but I think that I've got a better poll than the other Democrat And I'm still about 50% so When you carry on all the stuff I have but I know it's all the all the buzzers they sit around They smell something a little bit bad. They like to fly down take a piece out of it That's what's happening But good Lord will take care of you and then you time I will be back on top. So I wouldn't worry and I just tell Terry If he's loyal to the Democratic Party just keep his mouth shut. He's not the mouth of them. Give us all the hell he wants to I think you first thing you ought to do probably without coming to me Y'all tell currently what they're writing up there and telling the face He's it really doesn't know what he in the southern is a joint