 Texas and Colorado City and meet with all those birdchats and let them all tell you why they're for Goldwater. Yes, I want to be there getting ready for your trip there on the 20th of October talking about Appalachia. And here's what I propose to do and can do. We'll put $800,000 as requested by the budget for this commission, you know, that you propose to appoint. The money can't be spent until the commission is created by law. It isn't authorized, but if it's authorized early next year, we won't have to have a supplemental appropriation. You can give them the money and get them to work immediately. Now, this is a kind of a little backhanded approval. But what we do, that doesn't do any good for me. If I do nothing, you've got nothing for me. What we want to do is like we did with REA and like we have done with other agencies, there's no real opposition to the money for the commission. And Charlie Hannock told me he would go along and he would help work it out, too, if we had to have a rule or whatever is required to authorize it. Now, what we want to do is this. We want to get the Republican governor of Ohio and the Republican governor of Pennsylvania and the governor of West Virginia and the governor of Virginia Harris and our people. And we want to appoint this commission. I can set it up, I guess, by executive order. Do you want to appoint the commission? I can set it up by executive order now and I won't have the money for them to go on and make their preliminary planning and work and their divisions and how they're going to do this with the roads, the public roads and what they'll do here. And I hate to do it. I might even call them back to technique because I don't like to do things over twice. We've already passed them once over there. And I felt like that if they would give me this money and make it available now, they can make it available, they can make it available in my emergency fund if you want to. Just about $800,000 extra in my emergency fund. I've had to use a hell of it. A lot of it in Alaska and I've had to use a lot of it in the poverty. I've been paying them constantly out of the thing because their appropriation has been delayed and they're planning. But I don't want to get out of here and just say I have these 15 governors on my neck and not be able to be a drop. I tell me that in your foreign aid thing that you passed a foreign aid appropriation by getting the rule and waving points of order and then your appropriations and order. I don't know enough about the House parliamentary thing but it seems to me that you could do one or two things. Your conferees could change the language. It makes this $800,000 available to when authorized to just cut out when authorized and say it's $800,000 for a commission to study this. Then I create the commission by executive order. Or get a rule, make it an order. I don't care how it's done just so I can call in the governors and I won't lose the months of October and November and December because nobody's going to kid me into thinking that I'm going to get Appalachia the day we meet. The committee's going to have to be organized and they're going to have to go through all this stuff and the folks are going to stay at home an extra week and if I be damn lucky if I get it in March. So I want the commission to do the thorough planning. It's necessary and have these people. Now my employment, my unemployment's going up every day and we're claiming that we're doing something about these things but we did something about poverty but it's up two points since then. It's up, if you'll notice, one tenth of a percent this month. Again, it's up to five too now. I got it down to four or nine and things looked good. Everybody had confidence, everybody was employing, good business atmosphere. Congress sat on its fan and did nothing on poverty. We just sat and waited in their way. I went ahead in the last bill and it couldn't get through and they delayed it in the Senate and I couldn't, any of these young people so I got none of them employed. So the next thing I knew it went back to five points. Then last month it went to five one. Now this month it's five two. It's going right back up and I'm going to get a nice little lulu by election time where I'll probably wind up by six or seven more, Kennedy had it and I just can't survive that. Now, what you do is I don't care how you do it. That's the goose of the gander. I know this. I know that the president's got an emergency fund and I know you can say that we've got these commissions. They're already meeting. These governors have got their conference. They had this plan for why he even came in here. They had me down to West Virginia and the governor of Georgia and the governor of Virginia. That's not a bunch of crackpots. He's a solidest man in the country. They had Scranton and the roads of Ohio and Scranton to Pennsylvania, governor of West Virginia who's president of the governor's conference, governor Harrison of Virginia, governor Sanders of Georgia, governor of South Carolina, Donald Russell. Now, give me 800,000 for my emergency fund. Give me 800,000 for a commission to be created by executive order. Give me 800,000 for the Appalachian Commission. Give it to me any damn way you want to. And just bear this in mind. My first budget was July. That's when Johnson's budget came in. Then August is Johnson. That's first two months. Now, you know how much I spent in July and August? I spent 600 at 56 million less than you and Kennedy spent last July and August. Now, are you listening to that? Isn't that shocking? If I can't hold that. I can't hold that. But if I held that, instead of spending a billion dollars less this year, I would spend three billion for this for six, two months period. But the budget director's in this morning. And your Uncle Lyndon, by holding down on every one of these agencies, telling them not to buy a damn thing, you don't have to. Not to replace a person that quits. I spent in July and August, 600 million less than the last July and August. And he said that's the most honest measurement you can make. It's the same month last year. I've got 25,000 less people working for the federal government today than work when I took over. Well now. Now you follow that? 800,000 of Appalachians. I don't care how you get it. You work out that. If I were in a position to sidestep this matter, or gloss it over, but I'm right at the mouth of the gun. Just take your lead. That's the last. Just ask your clerk. Say, how can I get this 800,000 of it? I already talked about it. The House, the Republicans, and the Democrats are not going to go along on the beginning of Appalachia and the approval by the appropriation process of the appointment of this commission by and in the appropriation of this money. So we can't get it. Well now, Charlie Hallick told me this morning. Well, I've just been talking to him. Well, he told me this morning that he had talked to Frank Bowell and he had talked to Ben Jensen and that he would go along with me and I could consider that a commitment. And I said, I want to appoint the commission. I want them studied. I said, now this is not going to involve a commitment of the billion dollars. I said, no, it commits 800,000. And if you don't pass Appalachia, it goes out of existence. If you do pass it, we're ready for it. And we do it in planning on everything. I stepped to damn you that much on poverty. Yes, well, I don't believe that we can get the contrary's degree to this. You know, the Senate will do it. Because the Senate's ready to do it anyway. The Senate is willing to pass this legislation. Well, you go tell Charlie Hallock, the president understood him to tell him this morning that he would be willing to go for providing the funds and the appointment of the commission. He would provide the funds for the Appalachia Commission. And that the Appalachia Commission could work. But it would not involve any commitment beyond the commission on any project. And if you don't, well, God dammit, just put 800,000 in my emergency fund, George. You give the president whatever he wants for the emergency fund anyway, don't you? Yes. All right. But now, do you have... And he has Republicans, really, stronger for this than I am. You know the 12 of the 14 Republicans, Pennsylvania, Appalachia? Sure, sure. Now, do you have any interest in a provision which would provide that in the event of the passage of legislation authorizing the commission, $800,000 would be available? No, it's no value. It would be a gesture. It would only hasten the... That was put in in anticipation that you would pass the authorizing bill. And what I was going to do is say I would be, well, I was going to tell them that I would favor your adjourning tonight. Or whenever you could adjourn without passing authorization for Appalachia, not hold them here to get them back to vote on it. It's ready to be voted on. It's passed the Senate. It's got a rule. It's passed the House Committee. All you got to do is bring it up and vote on it. But the ban are not here. So I didn't want to pull them back. And I said, I can't really get the program started anyway until next January. I can get the commission appointed. I can get the conferences held. I can get the plans developed. And I have confidence that we can pass the program if I'm elected. If I'm not elected, I don't give a damn anyway. It can expire. But let me not waste three or four months of human beings. Well, now, you would have a limited, a partial foot in the door proposition with the approval, with the appropriation of the 800,000 continued upon the passing of the legislation. So it would go into... It would be better than nothing, but it's a fraud. Do you have that than nothing? Oh, yes, sure. Oh, sure. But what... Well, George, you can put it in my... Give it in my emergency fund. I'll try. I'll try. Just go in there and just say to him, and I'm going to set this up by executive order, and I want emergency fund to do it. And I don't want to build the deficiency and send you up to the deficiency. I need it now. And how do I agree with me? Do it. But you see... I called him. That's the only thing I called him about this session. I called him this morning, and he said, now, I would not want to commit a billion dollars. I said, you commit 800,000. But I want that, and I want what I can spend it. And he said, he'd go to me, and he'd talk to Ben Jensen and Frank Bow. They'll agree to this, but they haven't agreed to it with them. Well, go on and sell it to them. You can't get 800,000. My God, I'll get Clarence Cannon back here for me. But 800,000 is chicken feet. When you just point out to them that your president has spent $656 million less and was spending a couple of times, I ought to have to have made about 800,000. Who do you want me to talk to after we've come to some resolution? Whoever you need to. If you need to. I know I'm talking about that. Me? Call me. Well, I'm ready. This is an important thing. These are doubtful states. These are Pennsylvania, these are Ohio, and just much to them. He'll tell you, he'll tell you it's very much to their interest. I don't know. I'll get in touch with Carla, and they'll agree on it. Okay. Okay.