 Telephone conversation between President Johnson and Congressman Gerald Ford on November 29, 1963, at 6.52 p.m. Congressman Ford, 2191. President, how are you, sir? Happy Thanksgiving. Where are you? I'm home, sir. You mean Michigan? No, no, I'm here in Michigan. Well, thank God I had somebody in town. I was getting ready to tell him that Gregor Burns, he's right about the Congress. It couldn't function. I thought your speech was excellent the other day. Oh, thank you, Gerald. Gerald, I got something on you to do for me. Well, do the best we can, sir. I've got to have a top Blue Ribbon Presidential Commission to investigate this assassination. I'm going to ask Chief Justice to edit, and then I'm going to ask John McCloy and Alan Dulles. Right. And I wanted non-partisan. I'm not going to point out I've got five Republicans, two Democrats, but I'm going to do that. And I'm just, then you forget what party you belong to and just serve as an American. And I want Dick Russell, Sherman Cooper, John Cooper, and Senate. Dick's on Armed Services over there. And I want somebody on Appropriation and O CIA over in your shop. From Appropriation and Angle, because I'm covering the Armed Services Angle with Russell. I'm going to ask Hale Boggs and you to serve in the House. Well, I'm going to be McCloy and Dulles and Ford and Boggs and Cooper and Russell and Chief Justice Warren as Chairman. Well, you know very well I would be honored to do it and I'll do the very best I can. You do that and keep me up to date and I'll be seeing you. All right. Thank you very much. Thank you. Delighted to help out. Thank you, dear. Thank you.