 And you mentioned that this was a fence-mending sort of trip from the White House press corps perspective. Well, it was. For instance, it was so trivial. We were trying to find out. One of the big investigative projects of the trip was to find out where Ralph Yarbrough was going to sit in one of the limousines in a motorcade, because the Connelly's apparently didn't want him with them as the rumor went. So they had to find a place for Ralph to be upfront and be welcomed into the party. Yeah, that's interesting because it was the White House press perspective, looking at the national political scene and all. Larry Temple, general counsel for LBJ after he ascended to the presidency and also was close trusted aide to Governor Connelly. You were working here primarily heading up the Texas planning for the event in that regard. Does this fence-mending fit the total picture? Well, you know, the conspiracy theories about the assassination seemed to be endless and every time I turn around there seemed to be more and more myths about the trip. The trip clearly was political. There's no question about that. But one of the myths, and I have a respectful disagreement with Sid, is that the reason for the trip was that President Kennedy wanted to come down here and mend the fences in the Democratic Party and see if he could reconcile the John Connelly, Lyndon Johnson wing with the Ralph Yarbrough wing. And that was a myth that's been perpetuated. The plain simple fact is it was to be a political trip, one for fundraising and two to get around the state so the president could lay the base for a 64 election campaign. President Kennedy had been wanting to have a fundraiser or multiple fundraisers in Texas apparently since 1962 and had talked to John Connelly about that and the governor had kind of pushed him back a little bit saying it's a little too early. Your popularity is not at the stage right now that serves your best interests. Why don't we wait until early 64 to have the fundraiser and President Kennedy kept pushing back on Governor Connelly's pushback and in June of 1963 Governor Connelly was in El Paso and met with President Kennedy and Vice President Johnson and while I was on that trip I wasn't in the room when the conversation took place but he reported that President Kennedy said John we've got to have the trip and the fundraiser you've got to commit to do it and he did. Governor Connelly said okay if that's what you want to do and now's the time we will do it and President Kennedy initially wanted to have five fundraisers one in Houston one in San Antonio one in Dallas one in Fort Worth and one in Austin and John Connelly said no don't look like you're trying to come down here to rape the state and that was the term he used. You need to come down and have the people think you really care about the state and you want the votes so that was when the decision was made to have the single fundraising dinner here in Austin on the night of November 22 and then have the other parts of the trip that Sid just talked about and Julie and Ben can tell about more detail of San Antonio, Houston, Fort Worth, Dallas before coming here but it was a there's nothing wrong with having a political fundraising trip that's the nature of politics but it wasn't a trip to heal the wounds as John Connelly said if he wanted to heal the wounds between LBJ and Ralph Yarbron they were a few blocks from the White House all he had to do was go over there and the Governor also said if he thought he could heal the disagreement between Senator Yarbron and me that would be a bit fanciful and even the President didn't think he could do that so it was a political trip one for fundraising two to get around the state and try to generate popularity as a predicate to the election