 Senator Mansfield on one. Yes sir. Yes Mike. 1235. That's good. The date. Yes sir. Mike, you think we might make some appeal to our boys in the caucus or maybe you and Dirksen or the others to try to get them to not add any more amendments? They ran a truck through it this morning. Dirksen kept his promise, but they switched med-gate. And his vote is a goddamn railroads. I can't stop the trucks. They've got a lot more votes than railroads. And then I can't stop the waterways. And Russell thinks he'd get it out in conference, but it's not going to stand but good if these fellows yell about special interest controls and everything else and inflation and blame me and then we'll do a goddamn thing about it. I've been two months getting this little chicken bill that don't amount to hella beans. And then my own folks, Fulbright, he's mad about the goddamn war and because he couldn't get a plane a year ago and that's caused us to lose our whole foreign policy. Then I've got Hartke who's got two boys. He's afraid it's going to be drafted and he raises hell with me every day. He just gone nuts because he's scared to death. Now then Metcalfe's quit me. So Dirksen voted with me, but the rest of the Republicans framed up with them and they had a vote. Now I'm afraid that when the bill comes out that they're just going to wreck it with one amendment after the other. I'm free to go talk to McCarthy, but McCarthy didn't get to be vice president so he won't show his pleasure. And they're just going to defeat us and defeat our nation if we can't give them some kind of program that they'll stand for. I had them all down here. I met with every one of them. I pled with them and they all recommended this and Douglas didn't want to vote on it. He's the only man that really was in real danger. He got the worst race in Chicago as the headquarters, but he stood up like a man and gave us his vote. But if I could, I just thought maybe you might call the Democrats together or some way at least call these dissenters. McCarthy and Hartke and McCarthy has told him that he wouldn't vote for any more amendments. Dirksen has told us that he'll help fight off amendments, but I'm afraid with a railroad amendment you've got the trucks. And you say, why do you treat them one way or the other? And I think we can just say to our people that we're not going to take this amendment. And it may have to be until the whole damn bill that the railroads stay in it. But McCarthy and Hartke and Fulbright, they've all got this. You might talk to them and then try to hold our group and get folks like Pastore and Muskinsome up to supplement them because Anderson's gone. And we haven't got much leadership there. Smithers is the darling of the railroad, but he stayed with us and helped us. But he and Russell went good enough. That damn McCarthy called Metcalfe with him. How did he get hold of Metcalfe? Well, he got him and Metcalfe called in the office yesterday and told him that he had given his proxies and we counted on it. He'd given it to Russell Long. But he called up yesterday and said that he wanted to give it in the case of the railroads. He wanted to give it to McCarthy. And McCarthy had just misled us. He's just awful, Mike. That fella is just that special interest. He got worked up about the airlines. So we sat down and talked to him. And when he walked in the door to vote, he told Undersecretary Barr he was now satisfied and the bill was all right. He walked right in, they closed the door, and he made a motion to run a truck through it with his goddamn railroads. Do you want me to get together with Dirksen? I wish you'd get together with Dirksen. So if they're going to adopt these amendments, we might as well not have a bill. And I'm going to give the goddamn this message to the Congress that talks about inflation. And then they take some two months to pass a little bill like this. And then they give a special interest group like the damned old railroads. There's nothing to do with this. And now that kind of bill veto it. Well, but where am I? I'll be indebted that much more. That's right. I think if you tell Dirksen and you all would agree to buy partisan opposing, Martin said he wouldn't go with any more amendments. Dirksen told me the other day he wouldn't go for any. He kept his word, I'll say that for him, but in my Democrat. Then if you would take three or four of these liberal ones like McCarthy, he's promised us, but he may run off and call hard. He can say, please don't get this bill now. We've got to stand together. You're going to hurt all of our people. And you get us divided with the president. Why, it's bad. And see if you can't get it up before these pressure groups get it. You see it's dilly-dallyed around what the damn thing did. They held it up, Russell did a week over there. And the railroads got all their lobbyists in here. And they just gone from one center to the other. Now the airlines will do the same thing tomorrow. They've not moved the date up, you see. It ruins us. Not the day I suggested to you and Dirksen. Well removed it to the ninth. Now this crowd's moved it up until today. And I think if you could schedule it Thursday and just tell them that we'll send the Treasury people to work on the report all night if they need to, get it Thursday before they have time to get all the airlines and all the waterways. And it's just going to be a log roll in the Port Barrel deal. I'll do my best to hold it as it is. That is the least. Yes, that's what we want. And then we'll try to take you out to conference. And I'll see you Friday at 12.30. Yes, sir. At S207, the old place. Where? S207, you know, right off your old office up there. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Okay. Okay. Waiting. Waiting.