 Hello? Carl? Yes, sir. Beloved, what are you doing? You at home this early? Well, I came with him much today. I know it. How are you feeling? Feel fine. How did it? Did it make everybody mad at their civil rights? No. Everybody loved it. I haven't heard anything but praise. I didn't see your man forward. Well, he's been out of town. I had nothing to do with it. I released a statement about his statement today. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I love you, Trionنا. I want to marry you, but sit down. Yes. I hate toış... I know you're a patient. But it's vast your words speak, is it? Yes, I can. Come on. That's what I'm asking. Oh, my goodness. A son will alwaysmelry. Very inchy. Are you kidding me. I thought he better move. I didn't have it. The president sold himself out. That, I meant, that. He'll cancel the briefcase after I let him be held. conhe, see what you can do? How are you gonna get him that? Nothing to be said about he. Nothing to be said about me, but come on? Why not get him what his statement today. I hope it makes the papers. Well... You know I had a press statement today. What? I had a press statement today. Yeah, I knew you did. Tell me what happened on our higher education. I just heard about it and I'm crying. I'm just bleeding down here. What's the matter? Well, because I lost $700 million bills. No, you can't. I can't. They won't get it in the house. Oh, that old lady, Green, you know, is a mean old level. She'll have a religious amendment. Morris is mean in the Senate. And I don't believe I can wait on him two more weeks. We'll get it. We can do some way in the world under some rule that you get some consent to take it up Tuesday or Wednesday or Thursday. Well, we've got too much to do this week. What the hell? You haven't got anything? We've got the Economic Development Act. Well, what? That's right. That's all. And we've got the military construction appropriations. Oh, I can pass that in an hour. We'll pass that in an hour. Come on, come on, come on. Well, that's not anything. We have no problem getting that. Well, you know it, but you've got to wait two weeks. No, we don't, either. How wonderful. When can you get it up? They told me that you had to have it first to third Monday. Well, we can. And you know, Powell left us, and we talked to other people that he wouldn't be here for it. Wouldn't you let me call them and ask them to come back? No, but it won't do any good at this hour. Why? And that included Republicans. Why? Well, we told them that they asked us if we were going to bring it up. He said he wouldn't come in, and he's the only one that can call. Well, you just tell me when he won't do that, and let me try to get him, because I just hate to lose that separately. Well, you're not going to lose it. Well, you can only bring it up to first and third Monday to tell me, Carl. Well, that's under the 21-day rule. You can get it under a rule. You can get it under a rule. Well, you haven't got a rule, though. Well, we can get a rule. There's no problem. When can you get a rule? Well, we can get a rule within the next 10 days on this bill. Well, I know it. But, as you see, I've got a Senate with more. I think you understand me. See, we've got less than three weeks, Carl, and they want to get out of here. We've got more than... They can't get out in three weeks. They might as well forget that. I'm going to take about six weeks. You've got all your immigration? When are you going to get a rule on immigration? Have you got a date for hearing on the rules committee on it? No, we haven't, because they've just, you know, they only filed a rule at midnight tonight. That's right. But, uh... From the House, we... We reckon you get it, right? The non-glat rule is published. Can he ask for a rule? And he won't ask for a rule till Monday. And we can get a rule on immigration and higher education. We don't want that. Either one of them can come ahead of agriculture, because it's much higher than the harder one. We'll get them both. You have no problem on those two bills. The bill you have a problem on is agriculture. Well, what do we do about agriculture? We have a... You have a problem on this bill next week? What do we do about agriculture? What do we do about agriculture? We've got to... We haven't got a good count. We've tried to count, but our count is too many questions. Here's one. Here's what my friend says. A director, item that usually periscopes. Sam Schafer is one of the Ford's guests. And the president of our briefing leaders, Douglas, mentioned his worries about the soundness of sterling. Unquote. A car, that's so goddamn dangerous. Sure is. That we have just... We don't talk to... I won't even talk to a former secretary of treasury. And we've been on the phone day and night. I was up to one o'clock this morning with the secretary of treasury, with the deputy secretary of treasury, with the chairman of the Federal Reserve, with the chairman of the World Bank, at one in the morning, he goes and tells Newsweek what I tell you at private. And that's the first paragraph, unquote. Also, Mr. President, direct your attention to the last paragraph of Willard Edwards' place in the Chicago Tribune. He was also at Ford's briefing. At the White House meeting this week, Ford said the president expressed great concern about the British pound. Heading into the United States might have to support him. Post-grip. Also direct your attention to U.S. news. Mike Mansfield, the Majority Leader, Colson Johnson, there would be strong opposition to his declaring a national emergency and calling up reserve troops. Howard Norton of U.S. News & World Report was also one of the guests that Ford Larry luncheon. So there's three items that he put out in the Newsweek, in the Chicago Tribune, and in the World Report. Well, if somebody from the Republican side, when you mention those things, part of the framework in which we're operating a very tough situation in Vietnam is going to say that, what in the hell are you going to do? I'll do what I'm going to do. If you and McCormick... We'll do anything you want. All right, I think you ought to call him in and just say, here are three items and every goddamn one of them were brought up there and we didn't put them out and they all at your background. Now, if the president can't talk to you without these things getting out, well, then we're not going to do it. Well, I think that ought to be done. Next thing, I think we'll just be tough and able on these damn things and take it. The second thing I think we ought to do is I think we ought to meet here Monday afternoon if you and John are both going to be in town. Well, look at our bills and hit the ground Tuesday morning and let's just get them in shape and see what bills are where they are and how we're going to get them up and then let me get the Senate group maybe Tuesday and then a little later in the week we'll get them both. I don't believe we do too well when we're all there. I think we just take up the House group, one group, and then the Senate group, another group, we can do better. We've got a chance to make the greatest record in the history of the world. We can do it, we can do it when we can do it all. All right, I've given you all a list for three weeks and you haven't knocked the bill off of it. So I want to really pass them. You had a bad week this last week. You didn't do a damn thing, interest. Interest equalization's already passed. Well, we passed it. We had to double it. Well, I had a conference for it, but I don't count conferences. We're going to pass one of the big ones next week. What's that? We're going to pass a higher education if Powell has been here. Uh-huh. And Powell's got to take responsibility for not waiting. Well, we got him back, though. We got him all the way to Puerto Rico, and we raised hell with him, and he agreed to come back. By the time we got back, y'all had blown the cup. Next time, y'all tell me if you can't get him. It doesn't work when we've been... No, you ought to call me. I'm saying, Mr. President, your higher education ought to come up Monday and I can't get Powell. And I say, okay, let me get him. Well, I worked on it. I worked on it all week. I know what you ought to told me. You ought to told me. You didn't call me. I'll call him and go. I got to get him. We just can't let him go this way. And we've got him now. Well, we've grown the cup. He's going to be here to be recognized Monday, 11 o'clock, and we told him we sent for him, and damn you, you've got to come. And I'll call every human being that you ask and ask him to be here if you let me, but if you want one. I would have if I had known that I didn't want to bother you with it. I don't think the higher education is a major problem. It is, because we've got Morrison Green and anything they deal with, it's major. Every inch, every hour, I'm scared of this morse. He's demanding to be impeached. I got to dam this thing with him, and he's handling higher education. And if I can, I can't get him to peer drop till y'all pee. And then you're going to take another? We had told people that we needed you. Listen, we took this up with the top people in the house that are dealing with it. Well, now you see, if you take that up to me, and I've gotten power as I have gotten him, you wouldn't have any problem with it. Well, you'd be here. I didn't know y'all were going to call him. I'll just call him, and I'll do that with me, because I was, I will call him. I thought you and John McCormick delivered your own chairman. If you can't do it, let me know what I'll deliver. Well, we would have, but we tried to deliver him. And we were told that he was, that he said that he didn't want to be bothered by the White House or by us, and that he didn't want any of his bills up Monday. Now listen, this is just not, this is not just a play for, for the higher education bill. This is a play that involves the FEPC. He told me that before. He wants to get it up. Who wants that up? And the minimum wage bill. I know you're for it, but I think they're going hog-wise. They are, and that's all right. You can just kill a living hell out of that. Don't call me. Don't kill, really. But I don't know that we can, or anything. Well, don't call me. Don't call me. And I sure wouldn't let him get that civilian pain. Now listen, Carl, let me tell you this. You and John McCormick got to be Mr. Abert. Now I've been letting you all off wrong. Let me tell you, don't. Yes, you did. You did.