 Mr. President, how are you, Mr. President? I'm just doing fine. I hope you are. You only have something pretty good. How's Miss Eisenhower? We're fine. We're leaving for California tonight. Is that right? Lady Bird and I want to talk to you and tell you we just sure hope you could come to the inauguration and if we could do anything to make arrangements or anything for you, we'd love to do it and make you, if it is possible, make you as comfortable as it could and we want you to come see everything you want to see and nothing that you didn't want to see. Maybe you've had too many of them. This is all, Mr. President, you're very kind, but you see, mainly you won't travel except by train. Train. Now to come back all the way just after we got out there and we had to get our children out for the holidays, it would be quite a burden on her and I think it would just be unwise. Well, I wouldn't want you to do anything that would take any energy. Much resistance. Well, I get her quite, please be quiet while I try to keep her pretty steady there. Well it's not anything I want more than for both of you to conserve all you have so you'll be with us as long as everything. I just want you to know that we both would feel mighty, pleased and happy if you felt like you were here. I can't tell you how deeply appreciate it. I appreciate it. Why are you on the phone? I'd like to tell you about an incident. Sure thing. I was out at Hershey at a meeting with the Republicans doing the last campaign and it was a pretty nice meeting. You're trying to get the things on the rails and some constructives and so on where we could all support. It turned out that there was a reporter there. Now, he apparently gave to Newsweek or some other darn organization a statement which purported to be a quote from me in which I said we all had to unify and that was true. We had to do our best to put it to win because that's what Republicans are out for. And then he said, he put on and throw out this communistic form of government we have in Western. Now, never in my life have I accused anybody or any organization in the United States of incognito. I never go into this business of criticizing and trying to, by exaggeration, to express my disapproval of something. So this is so, I tell you, I called up everybody. But that's fine. Just because, I know this can hurt you, but it can hurt me terribly in my own mind because I could ever, people could think me guilty of saying such a damn thing. Nobody thinks you guilty of anything except the very best motives and the best judgments that you capable of exercising. And long as I'm here, there's nobody going to have more respect or really more affection than you. And you can just be sure of that. I never read it. And if I had read it, I wouldn't have paid a damn better attention. I think I probably stopped this thing, but I told him. I said, if this man writes this thing, whatever I can do to discredit him and the public, I'm going to do it. I said, I've never taken off on this, buddy. But I'm not going to have this kind of thing said because after all, you know, I tell you, I have personal friendship and admiration without agreeing those political problems. And I'm certainly never going to say anything that was implied. That kind of a thing about the administration you had. I know that. Well, we're in different parties, but we're for the same country. And we may have different approaches. I don't think many. I served under you eight years and I didn't find it very uncomfortable. I didn't find that I was very incompatible. And I found myself down there on the front row, voting for your recommendations a good many times when Republican leaders on the back row fighting them. And I find myself pretty comfortable with you. And I don't, I haven't ever found it necessary to say anything personal about you or anything about your program. And I talked to Melton Goodie. He started out with me when I was a kid congressman and he got me my first nationwide broadcast over radio. So we had a pretty good close touch and Bob Anderson calls me every week or so. And they helped me and you just pay no attention. They're not ever going to divide us. You can fight a good Republican fight. I'll do my best. But we'll both be for the country when the chips are down and I want your advice and your suggestions and your recommendations and your judgment without bothering you and without being a pest every time I can. I think you've earned a little rest and I'm not going to drag you in to get any chestnuts out of the fire unless they really get my tail in the crack internationally and when I do, I'm going to come running. Well, thank you very much, Mr. President. I most deeply appreciate it. Thank you, Mr. President. It's only because of my concern for naming things in health care. I understand that. I understand that. And if it were, if it were something besides just a ceremony and I had to have you, I'd tell you. But I just want you to know that we would be happy. Please say my one effective greeting to the lady first. Sure will.