 I'm so glad to hear you. How are you feeling well? I've been pretty good, but I wanted to tell you about a dilemma I mean We have man naming. I had this a nice invitation for the 14th one for a prime minister Well, I that happens to be her birthday and I had to finally tell her that I had I had planned this little surprise party for you with some Nevins and the other guests around here So I'm into the hell of a push. Well, you just do what you do Whatever you think you ought to do and give her that birthday because she comes first I had to say to her that she As a matter of fact, she didn't so much. I had to tell her about it because she was writing you to Mrs. Johnson this morning. I had to tell her then about her party And I wouldn't mind I could break up the party except if she wasn't mine She would be all right, but the guests I don't I mean quite a person I wouldn't do that. Now what we want so to do general here's our problem. We don't want to attack you one ounce At the same time anything that happens here We want you and Mrs. Eisenhower to be included if it would be enjoyable Now you can't call up and say I'd like to do this and do that And we never know but we thought with the Japanese that we would we would urge it As a matter of fact, you know they were they've been very kind they've invited me back There several times they say with the emperor's approval and to come over But I never felt like doing it because I had one of Mrs. Eisenhower and she won't fly So it means a long ocean dive Well I wanted you to come and I wanted you to see I want you to see this new portrait I'm just so proud of it. It hangs right down the steps when we come down from upstairs And it's right behind all the pictures that we take when we were the head of state When we stop at the end of the stairs And the photographers look at the people standing there right above it is your picture And I like it I like it much better than I do the other one Well as a matter of fact, I do two weeks after it starts to blend I like it. That face has got a little bit more lines in it Oh no I thought this is good. This is the film that I know I just took that last night and the picture made with it last night It's a wonderful picture And I wrote over Harry Darby and thanked him for sending in here It looks like you're going to run for office here in 68 We've got so many old pictures around There's no one thing Mr. President I don't believe it's against the Constitution to me for running your vice president Well I'll tell you this. I think you're the best qualified man in this country of anything I told the group the other day that you're the only fellow that I knew That you're as much as my joint chiefs of staff and you're more than I did How have you been, Mr. President? I've been doing fine under the circumstances We're getting this government off reasonably good I don't want them to bother you but I sure do want them to keep you informed And I told McNamara to go see you because I thought it would be good for McNamara I think that he and General Goodpastor are just wonderful But I thought maybe a little touch of you Given your views and philosophizing with this fellow would be a little helpful We've got a project we call Buttercup That shows that the South Vietnamese are kind of playing a little bit with the NLF And talking to them about exchanging prisoners And we got some exchanged yesterday for the first time And they don't know how they might talk And this fellow Chu, most of the people think I'm not very good at evaluating But most of the folks think Westmoreland and Bunker and NAM And instantly, Mr. President, I think we've got the best team we could have And most people out there So I just have confidence in them and I try to support them But they think that Chu's going to be better than Key And a little more reserved and a little more judicious and a little tougher And maybe not quite so gay and showmanship And so we're working on that a good deal And I'm having a meeting I just called it now For 1130 to talk to Rusk and McNamara and them again About releasing some more prisoners They want some more exchanges I encourage you General Bradley just came back He says that they're from Vietnam And he says they've got 12 and 13-year-old kids And the report from Bunker this week shows that One province is out of Saigon in the third core area That's made up of about 500,000 people And the Vietcong have just picked up and evacuated to Key to live And out of food and battalions and whatnot So all of these little things And we're afraid to say it because they hit our credibility If it doesn't come true why this happens If you want to know the truth of what we've been doing I've been suffering a terrific onslaught by Bobby Kennedy I wouldn't tell this to any other Republican But Bobby has organized any Bill Paley's son-in-law in New York with CBS Called a meeting and Bobby's lawyer, Vanda Hoovell Who traveled over to Europe with him When he got this peace feeling and all that stuff They got a lot of money in and they got Martin Luther King And they raised the money and they turned it over to him And they sent him to all these cities And he went around and he gets out of them Before the trouble begins But he went around all over the cities And that's caused me a lot of problems In the cities this year Then they've got the ADA and the Harvard group Going around and saying Well, we've got to dump Johnson So they've got our own people plucking That we ought to get out of the war And that they're not dependable And that the generals are taking over And it's been quite a problem for them In my own group Then I started getting hit by the cases And the Mortons and so forth It kind of looked like everybody was turning in When you and y'all formed your committee And made a little statement that arrested Then you came out and said Well, I just don't, I'm not I've got more information than anybody in this country You didn't say that, but everybody knew And they looked at you And you'd been every military job we had And been president, but I don't know enough To criticize the commanding chief And the generals in the field And the bunker and men like that And I just want to, I want to know more About what I'm talking about That kind of settled it a little bit But we just had hell And these college students I've had Hoover in after them And Ho Chi Minh sent a bunch of them Over here wires in April And he got this fella Dellinger And he's properly named too And there's Miss Wilson And Stokey Carmichael And he asked them to come over there And they got over there last spring And they sat down and planned These demonstrations in Rome And in Bonn and in London And the United States and so forth All on the same day And they laid out their plans And then they sent our American delegates And a number of the other delegates To Czechoslovakia and to Germany And to London and to Paris And to Rome and they met with people there And they started planning And they came to this country And our folks came back home And it was pretty much an affair Until they got into colleges And they got into colleges And they got the general brats And the liberal groups And the preachers And the preachers have been in all these From the 1812 they tried to They told Madison That British were right And he ought to surrender And they told Lincoln That he ought to go over to the Center under the Confederacy And they did the same thing Well, anyway, they came Marched here And we arrested 600 of them And we gave 29 of them pretty tough times We found most of them Really were mentally diseased Hoover's taken 256 That turned in supposedly the draft card And about 50 of them are college professors Who had been examined For the draft by the Army And turned back as kids And Then a good many of the young kids Were dealing with mental problems Kind of like the Oswald deal And then they get A lot of innocent folks that come in Now how much of that we can expose What we ought to do about it I called the Attorney General last night I think he's been a little easy himself That's why I hit crime so hard yesterday I think we talk too damn much About civil liberties and constitutional Rights of the individual And not enough about the rights of the masses I talked to Dirksen there that night Like you have, he loves this country And he don't pay attention to the politics Well, I tell these people Look, I said if I'd have been In the same position of responsibility I might have done some other things differently But that's a question of judgment That's what we have, we've freely elected people And we've got this thing behind them I really, I've been Consulting with my Some of my publishers Whether I shouldn't put an article on this I wish you would, that would be the best thing I could do if you could get to live or look Or some of them to just take it Or if you would have another interview In television If you just answered the questions And just take it up And Bunker's coming in here If you could sit down with Bunker You know Bunker, oh very well He was Ambassador when I was President Alley in India Well, he was a Republican Bendis man And Vermont had made a good deal of money Somebody said and decided he wanted to retire And they started pulling him into the government For every tough assignment And Dominican Republic It was impossible, but he went down there And all those communes are with three groups up in China He's Castro and So he whipped them all And he says That he's bringing this thing through I'd like you to see him when he comes back He's going to be here in about 10 days I'm going to be, I'm going out to California In the first December I'm jealous of you I want to quit and come out there And play golf myself I'll be here through November though Wonderful, wonderful If you are and you can I'd like to send him over there in 30 minutes I'll tell you, I'm My briefings that I've had I'm very much encouraged on the military side of this And particularly What does please me Is the increasing percentage Of those people that have the courage to go and vote Yes That shows that they're getting great confidence General We took us from 1976 1789 to get a constitution In this country And we had all that Anglo-Saxon heritage And background and freedom Now these people in 13 months Have had five elections And we've shoved them And bunkers shoved them Maybe a little too fast, we're smaller But the fact is That they have a higher percentage As a matter of fact a constitution And they've elected House and Senate And the President and Vice President And I think that's pretty encouraging I do too, as a matter of fact In this thing I've been writing on That's what I've done Putting a great stress on that If you could have a television interview Or if you could have If you could write an article For one of the magazine's local life Just whatever Information we have And have any people that you want To talk to and when bunker comes back You might hang it on after you've Just visited with him You can just say you sent for bunker And ask to see him That you want to report direct One of the networks that We're working on now Meeting on that great thing in an hour Well, I just think there's nobody In this country that has The respect of the government That the respect of the people Anymore than you do Not another human being I think your government's in trouble, General I don't want to say this You wouldn't want to say it when you were Head of it, but I think we're in more Danger from these left-wing influences Now than we've ever been In 37 years I've been here And they're working in my party From within, and Bobby thinks He's going to get the nomination And the convention The son-in-law of Bill Peely Yes, sir, named Burden B-U-R-D-E-N B-U-R-D-E-N I'll tell you how I know about it I've got copies of Bobby's Lawyers This fellow vendor whose letters Owned Martin Luther King Which I'll send you copies of Writing to people And Charlie Englehart Who's head of Englehart Industries Went to the meeting And agreed to give Martin Luther King Some money for civil rights He thought he was helping the Negro And the Fadam fellow went out of Chicago Next week and announced that he was Trying to destroy Johnson So Englehart got mad and called him up And asked him to tell him he didn't want to give his money Well, I'll tell you I know those people up there In CBS pretty well I'll get my nickels worth And you can bet on that This young, he married Peely's daughter And he's this young jet-set Oh, right, sir They don't like anybody, you know, from Away from the East Coast But I'll tell you, Mr. President I'm a damn good Republican But if I tell you, if ever they If ever they want that Little pipsqueak to the president Of the United States I'm really going to get on the Hustings and I'm really going to work Well, that's what they're trying to do And if I didn't run And I haven't at all concluded I would But if I did, we'd just take you to New York And I just I think the Republicans could beat him If they didn't fight among themselves But this boy Is awfully vicious And when you hear him He's absolutely ruthless If you look at the people that he doesn't like And hear that And hear that And hear that