 The attorney general calling you on 9-0. Hello? Thank you. The president. Yes. Hello. The president. Yeah. Martin Luther King is going down to Greenwood, Mississippi tonight. And he's going to address a mass rally there. Of course, that creates a problem. We've talked to the officials down there, representative of the governor, and discussed it with them. And they say that they will not escort them, but that they'll have state patrol there. And their advice is that if you leave Greenwood tonight, we asked them about escorting them out of Greenwood to Dr. Jackson. And they said they wouldn't do that, but that they would patrol the highway. And that they'd try to keep it as safe as they could. And so we passed that on to Martin Luther King. That the people down there, we can't guarantee it because we don't have the authority. But the people down there think he should go. He should leave Greenwood tonight and go on to Jackson. It's a ticklish problem. Because if he gets killed, it creates all kinds of problems. Just him being dead, but also a lot of other kind of problems. Can we have FBI people there and have them keeping their eyes and ears open and preceding them and following them probably? Well, it's difficult to just say preceding and following. Then I suppose we can. Again, I have no dealings with the FBI anymore. But I think maybe they asked them perhaps. Didn't he get you that report the other day that he sent that? Yeah. But I understand that he sends all kinds of reports over to you about me and about the Department of Justice. Not any that I've seen. What are you talking about? Well, I just understand that. That he's about me planning and plotting things. No, he hadn't sent me a report that I remember. I just called him the other day and told him I'd like to have that full report. And to be sure to send me a copy of it, and then I called him back a little while later and said send an extra copy for me here. I assumed he'd send one to Attorney General and he said yes. And that's the only conversation I've had. But he hadn't sent me a report on you or on the Department. Any time. And I get, I guess, a letter every three or four days that summarizes good deal stuff. And Walter Jenkins gets eight to ten of them a day on Yugoslavia. And there's routine things where people are talking. But as far as I know they haven't involved you. Well, I had understood that he had sent reports over about me finding the overthrow of the government by force and violence. No, no. Feeding to who? No, that's an error. He never said that or indicated or given any indication of it. In any case, going back to this, that's the, they're going to have the state patrol there. It's just, maybe the FBI, I thought about having marshals go along that road, but I think that causes all kinds of problems. Maybe the FBI could talk to Governor's office down there with whom they have a liaison, see whether they could make any sense if they had a car that would follow Martin Luther King out of Greenwood. Back to Mississippi. Why don't you have somebody, Burt Marshall, or you, or if you don't. Well, I hate to tell you to be dealing with somebody you're working over here. I hate to ask you to be dealing with somebody that's working over in the department. That's not a very satisfactory situation. But I would, why don't I call them and see. But anyway, I kept trying. I never had the slightest indication that he didn't want to cooperate with you or with Burt Marshall or any of them. He's never indicated anything like it to me. And I don't know where. I think it's just, I mean, the numbers. You know, it's a very difficult situation, I think, for everybody here now, whether it's Nick or Burke or me or anybody that has to deal with them. But, I mean, as I say, we'll all get through in a little while. The other thing, Mr. President, is New York. I just talked to Mike Murphy up there, police commissioner. And it's his feeling that it's organized and it's run by the Labor's Progressive League, which is a communist organization, that they've had an employment there and it was just given instructions to distribute pamphlets in Harlem and people how to make Molotov cocktails. I think that it would be helpful if we had a major investigation going there by the FBI, getting as much information as possible, cooperating with the New York police as much as possible and also see if, for the activities of some of these people, whether they violate any federal laws, I have your permission. I'd like to have the FBI make a major effort there also and if you could also evidence your interest, I think it would be helpful. I'll be glad to call him. I thought I ought to wait until I talk to the mayor, the mayor's in route back. I tried to, I got in a call, I haven't had an answer on it yet, to the acting mayor and I thought I would say to him exactly the same transcript I used in Mississippi and the same one to Governor of Georgia and say we're concerned and we're ready and willing to be helpful and in light of the disturbance we are asking the FBI to conduct a thorough investigation of it and we ask them to get in touch with you and cooperate fully with you and we realize that you have the responsibility of local law enforcement. We don't want to replace you but we do want to carry on the necessary investigation to determine what federal law has been violated and how we can put a stop to this violence and maybe put out a statement on it very similar to what we did when the St. Dulles to Mississippi and what we did when we called Sanders and sent him to Georgia so people at least don't think that we just chimp on the south. Yes, Jimmy Brizlin wrote a pretty good article in the Herald Tribune this morning which is the worthwhile, the kinds of people that are involved in some of these things. I think Murphy runs a good police department and, you know, I think Skrivane flagged him to whatever has to be or can be done. I thought we should just take some care that doesn't look like we're undermining the police department when we discuss an investigation that doesn't look like we're involved at this moment particularly with Frank Hogan going in, doesn't look like we're mistrust Frank Hogan the district attorney and also the police department because we're making an investigation of Gilligan, not whatever his name is, and the police. I think that that perhaps causes. See if you got any suggestions on this statement that I wrote out last night and have put it out because I made three or four changes. This morning I've got in a call for Skrivane and haven't been able to get him. For the past three days the nation has been shocked by reports of rioting and disordered in the streets of our largest and one of our proudest cities. The immediate overriding issue in New York City is the preservation of law and order and the right of our citizens to respect for their property and to be safe in their person as they walk or drive through the streets. In the preservation of law and order there can be no compromise just as there can be no compromise securing equal and exact justice for all Americans regardless of their race or their creed or their color, their national origin. I've called the acting mayor of New York City. I've told him of my willingness to cooperate in every way possible to help him in this time of agony. Law enforcement is basically the responsibility of the governor, state and local officials. The acting mayor and other officials in New York are aware of all their responsibilities and are determined to discharge them including the full application of impartial justice. It must be made clear once and for all that violence and lawness cannot and must not be tolerated. In this determination New York officials shall have all the help that we can give them and this includes helping correct the evil social conditions that be despair and disorder. American citizens have a right to protection of life and land with the driving along a highway in Georgia or road in Mississippi or street in New York. I believe the old well-enjoyed Americans regardless of their section of their creed will join in preserving law and order and rejecting it resolutely those who expel violence no matter what the cause. Evil acts of the past are never rectified but evil acts of the present. We must put aside the quarrels and the hatreds of back on days resolutely reject bigotry and vengeance and proceed to work together toward our national goal. I think it's very good. I just did. You said here is a statement that has been agreed upon. Bill Moyers and Lee White and Burke Marshall said, quote, I think it's a good statement. It has none of the other problems I discussed with Bill Moyers, unquote. Yeah, now I think it's just a question of the timing for it. I guess we ought to put in there that we ask an FBI to cooperate fully to extend every facility and cooperate fully with the local and state officials. Yeah. I think it ought to be put out as soon as we read it to them and see that they don't think that we're trying to put them on spot. Yeah, I think that's right. The layers on the other phone now, they tell me, acting there. Yeah. And then are you going to talk to Mayor Wagner, too? Well, I don't know. He's not back until late today. I don't know whether I ought to wait for that or not. What do you think? But I think this is fine. I think that you should give him a ring tonight. Yeah. So he knows that he's involved. And I think it's good to have the statement read and make sure that they approve of it. Okay. Mr. President, that invitation is still outstanding to you, but I know that you've got a lot of other problems. Well, I'll just do it. I'll talk to you this week. You can just decide. Yeah, I'll talk to you on that, too. Bye.