 I wanted to wish you a Merry Christmas and tell you that you're loved. Thank you very much, and I hope everything goes all right for you. It's gone well for Christmas. It's been going well for me ever since I met you, and Bird and I were just thinking about what wonderful people are. You and Miss Bass have been to us since we met you, and we wanted to thank you. Thank you very much, and I want to tell you that I'm just with you since. Oh, that's your heart. That's the thing that any person who's ever done. Well, you're always in our hearts. There's Miss Grumman, and I wish you could see this pretty portrait of hers hanging here in the White House. We take so much pride in pointing out to all of our guests this portrait because we think she's a very unusual lady. Well, I see that very soon. I haven't dreamed of it. And oh, Mr. Bass, I hope you just had a happy, happy time. Did you have your grandchildren with you? Okay. This is Lady Bird. I hope you had a happy Christmas, and did you have your grandchildren with you? No. No, they couldn't come out this time. Well, I know you had a good visit with them in the summer, though. Isn't that funny? I know you had a good visit with them sometime in the summer, because I remember seeing some pictures, and you looked so happy. That's right. That's my night. Well, you give Mrs. Grumman my love, and we just wanted to wish you both a happy Christmas and tell you that. Thank you very much. Is she there where we can say a word to her? Yes. I'll care of that. Lady Bird and I wanted to tell you and the President how loved you are, and how admired you are, and how grateful we are for all that you have. Mr. President. Well, I'm not. Well, it's too nice. No, I'm not. You've always had a wonderful day with your family. We have. We just so blessed. We had the sweetest daughters here, and we talked to the boys last night in Denang. Oh, that's wonderful. One of them went up and met with the Air Boy, went up and met with the Marine, and we talked to them about nine o'clock. It was nine o'clock in the morning there. Oh. And we were so thrilled, and we made both of them's little babies. One of them baby's two months old. One's a little less than two years, and we made them both squeal over the telephone so they could hear. Oh, that's great. We think of you often, and every time I go by your picture, I see my favorite first lady except one. The one that, the other one is on the phone, wants to say hello to you. I've been ready to go, and I'm just thinking, and I've always just considered you such a strong and, and you've both been a great relic. We appreciate your friendship, and we're just so fond of you. That gives us a big lift. Can I tell you the other day I told you this, but I want to tell you again, the other day my cabinet gave me a silver, with a silver pimp set on it, and they had the major acts that we had passed, more than a hundred. Oh, yes, that's true. And the, you know, things like elementary education, and medical care, and things of that kind, civil rights, and conservation measures, and they listed each one of the major bills, and they said they had a nice little statement about how they were glad this administration passed all of these. That was a lovely gift. I took it and reviewed it on a trip that I was making home, and you know that almost half of the bills that I had passed, President Truman had started twenty years ago. Is that so? That's amazing. So I thought that you would be interested in knowing most of the good things like education, and Medicare, and civil rights, and conservation. It took twenty years to get his ideas through, but they were finally passed, and I tried to save that to the country, but the paper don't pay much attention to it. Oh, no. Thank you for the paper. Well, you have a healthy regard, father.