 Bill there, you expected. No doubt in reading, maybe it doesn't sell more, I suppose. Congressman Mayhan, I know. George, in presenting this bill today, I thought I'd better go over two or three points with you that... First of all, we don't need this bill at all. We're not asking for it for a vote of confidence. We're not asking for it even in support of our efforts. We, in view of the increased demand, have to have ammunition. We have to have extra ordinance. We have to have extra fuel. We have to have the extras provided in this bill maintenance because helicopters apply in 90,000 hours instead of 30. We have funds, as you know better than anybody else in 5, 10, we could transfer it. But to do that without telling the Congress in such a huge amount, I thought might make them feel that, well, he's just kind of ignoring us and so on and so forth. So I said to the leadership, I'll use it under my transfer authority or I'll send a new message, whichever you think's better. And it was pretty generally agreed that if you were real honest and frank, you'd say, here's what we need, and I'm going to ask for this additional and you'd give it to us and I'll use my transfer if it's an emergency and you're not here sometime. But since you're sitting up there and you can hear it, it seems to me it'd be better for you to examine it and make us justified and so forth. So that is the first reason. Now the second thing for your background, and I think this is extremely important, Mr. Betancourt is here and he was said last evening that he has now, through his own private sources, confirmed what happened down there and that this is not any plaything and not an ordinary fight of politicians that it has a good deal of outside influence. He's satisfied. And I'm hoping that Betancourt will be interviewed today and be questioned pretty closely and see if he won't get on the record bed because I think that would be very important to us. Now number three, Ms. Bosch is here and we have developed that she didn't know they didn't even know there was going to be a revolution. That this Colonel Comanio and the Wessons were two military dictatorships fighting each other in a big war and they just used Bosch. He didn't even know there was going to do it. They brought his name in so he'd be a nice poet and a sweet liberal and a good human being and kind of put him up in the front. And as soon as they got going, they dropped him like a hot potato. Now the Latin liberals like Munoz, Maureen and Betancourt and the others are coming around to that. But this is not just any peasant uprising against the government. This is a question of some folks trying to do a job and Comanio, the Colonel, using Bosch kind of as a front to have two military dictators fighting each other. I thought that just having knowledge of that would be of some value to you and of course we are pursuing it carefully. And some have indicated that we might be, the administration might be hesitant or doubtful about its policy and some either Vietnam are there and that's not the thought at all. I've got to vote a confidence 502-2 on the August thing which says prevent any aggression anywhere and protect armed troops anywhere. I thought though this would be a master stroke with the Congress to show them I was frank and candid and when I needed something I'd put it right in their belly and if they didn't want to give it to me they'd say so and if they did they'd say so and if they gave it to me they'd say we can trust the guy although he's got authority he didn't write his cheque he let us in on it. So I want to be sure that you get that picture. Well I've been a little worried it's just how the best to approach this. Now handing it before the full committee is no problem at all but you have to be careful what you say and not forget the right slant. This will show the approval of the policy which we're pursuing in Southeast Asia of course. This is one of the objectives as requested you see in your message of yesterday. But it's true also that this could be handled within the framework of existing appropriations of language but with Congress in session why shouldn't we be kept advised and participate in these matters because we're supposed to control the power strength. If I hadn't been there 30 years on the hill I would have just signed the documents that came to me transferring funds under 510. When it came to me I said wait a minute wait a minute. Why on the hill do I not tell George Mayhon and Carl Hayden? Why don't I tell Mendel Rivers and John Stennis if I don't tell them three days later they'll be finding out about it and they say good God this man is doing his own appropriating down here and we're right here in session. So I laid my cards on the table if they want those helicopters fly if they want that fuel and if they want ammunition in a gun they can pass that bail if they don't they can cut it or reduce it or defeat it and I'll have to be guided by what they do. But of course the House well the committee was just overly unanimous and cooperative and I think the House there'll be a little squawking from fellows like Gross but in my opinion very short I've asked McCormick and Albert to say a word we're going to do it 30 minutes to the side and try to do it in an hour. I think that's a good deal you know. You know something that bothers me with all these terroristic techniques that are developed in the world I'm afraid that the time is coming just like this thing in San Diego they are refining the instruments of terror they can even blow up the capital some day some of them people. This thing is real serious. No question about it and we've got to meet it and meet it head on and what we've done is I said to a group of ambassadors this morning this thing occurred Saturday we asked for ceasefire we talked to them Monday met with them Tuesday officially we said please ceasefire please understand this thing's grave we met with them Wednesday and they debated Wednesday Wednesday at three o'clock our ambassador says I'm still not going to ask for help because I hope this some other way but they're government they're chief of police they're military authorities they're governmental leaders in charge says you're on your own we cannot give you any protection and they're shooting through the embassy now what does a man do under those circumstances two things I complied with the unanimous request to the country team and the unanimous recommendation of the departments here and I sent them troops announced to the American people what they're doing immediately as soon as they get it out of the typewriter they said it's very rushed that works are mad because they didn't give them a dare to notice on it and immediately notified American states and said please get in here and let's decide it since then I've asked them ceasefire that'll work please get us some troops that'll work please get us a commission that'll tell us what to do we don't want to do any of those things but we're not going to be like a mother sit there with all of our children being lined up in shot and at five o'clock we were told they're marching a hundred policemen down the street put them against the wall to shoot them they're doing that to their people what were they doing during the hour now as it is they'll say well you ought to have done so and so as I look back you ought to call the meeting of the United Nations of the US for a while longer if I had done that and a hundred had been killed they'd said why didn't the idiot take precautions and then call the meeting so either way you go you got it but the point is this we haven't killed anybody and they haven't killed a single civilian up to now and we have saved they had fifteen hundred to two thousand Dominicans in the streets smelling dead but they're not an American because we surrounded them and we have not lost an American life as of yet now the snipers picked off six of our Marines from top of the building but we weren't killing Dominicans we were there protecting Americans and thirty-six other countries and we haven't lost a life which is the most phenomenal thing that you ever heard of and I told McNamara after the orders I said now let's don't get some while boy they're some captain it'll start shooting up the street when they invade on him let's get the best man we got in the United States Army send them put him in charge tell him to use a cool head and his job is not to kill anybody but to keep any of our people being killed and that's it and he sent Palmer in twenty-two minutes from the time I gave the order Palmer was in an airplane from Andrews and he is taking charge and they may kill a thousand this afternoon but up to now we haven't lost one and we're bringing them out by the hundred we got five thousand to bring out and the Latin they tell me the Latin ambassadors themselves are the ones that are most grateful because they just get a hell-shot out of their imposition yeah now in this thing today the chief emphasis should be on Southeast Asia I assume I certainly would yes I'd say on both of them I'd say that we're trying to we're using the maximum effort to prevent aggression with the minimum expenditure and the minimum loss of life now in the last since I became president November 23rd we killed 26,000 Vietcong but they've infiltrated enough where we estimate they've got 40,000 now but most of our practically everyone we killed in South Vietnam where they've invaded they've aggressed, they've come across this line and we're having to use good deal more helicopters good deal more planes good deal more fuel good deal more maintenance and unless we want to pull out we've got to have the funds to do it with and we can use them and come back and call you in special session in November or December or we can get them now while you're here or we can, if you don't want us to do it we can just quit flying them yeah, well I think we'll have a good day and I think we'll handle this thing we'll see whether they believe we'll see what they believe and they're exactly being pranked and candid and open with them I called every Republican on the committee I didn't make you the Democratic there and I laid it on the line and I just wanted you before you went on to Florida this is good, thanks