 All these boys ten extra days to register, or Nick was in the whites and was involved in that, has helped them more. And what about the next day after the march is over? These 50,000 people, how many are jammed in this place? They're going to be here the next day, and the next day, and the next day, they're going to bankrupt our state, and we don't have the money. Of course, if they want to take the better government, take the state over. Of course, they will probably reciprocate a condition that will maybe sometimes require that, unless we can use this good influence of your office to save major marches. Now, let's don't skip marches. That's what I'm worried about, what after the march, Mr. President. Oh, I guess no one can really prophesy what any group will do. I sure don't know, I wish I knew. I helped a feeling that from what Governor Ellington and the Attorney General had said, and they were both very understanding of the situation and of your problem and our problem, that I might issue a statement later today saying that, I ask people to not go into the state and that we're going to jointly try to protect the march, according to the order of the court, but that the more problem they give us, the more people, the greater trouble it is. I would hope that if your men, your highway people have to go back, as you suggest, that I could be better if you called up the guard in the service of the state, and I just approved it and gave some advisors with them rather than I doing it, and I would just have available, as we have had, proper contingencies there in case, in the unlikely event that the police and the guard and our appeals were not sufficient. And if the situation deteriorated, then I would have to give some thought to federalizing the guard and putting it under a single command with the Craig and Maxwell people, but I would start out, if I could, trying to say to them that we want to get the order carried out as promptly as we can. I thought your statement on the election thing was good, I thought on the voting thing was good, but I thought that the whole appearance the other day was helpful. And the ticker today carries stories, I haven't seen the paper, but about your education, the statement to the educator, and that's going to have its effect and good effect. But we confronted with the fact and not a theory, and we can't wait until it's too late, and if you guard, if you're a highway patrolman or going back to the highways to take care of the drivers and things like that, and you've got this group that's coming and the highways moving and the tourist courts filling up, I would, if you call up your guard, I'll put the best people we've got to work right with them, and our people here applaud the conduct of the guard the last time we had him. They think you're all right, and we'll just, we'll have sitting back alerted, ready for whatever help you need these others, and I think I just say that, I'm asking people in the country not to, not to let this thing get out of hand, and we don't need any more marching down there, they've got enough to march. Well I think that would be excellent, and here's what I'll do. We're going to keep close touch with the situation. Wait a minute, let me put the attorney general on, so if you've got any question here, he can ask you, he's on line one. I'm going to leave you here in a little bit, trying to go down in Texas, March number one, nine oh, Nick, nine on the top one. Turn general? Yes, yes. Governor, you hear him? Yes, sir, I can hear you. Go ahead, Governor. Thank you, Mr. President. I'm on too, I'll just stay here. I just wanted him to hear what the program was, because I'm getting... Well what I'm going to do is this, I'm going to keep close touch with the situation, and I'm going to do whatever we consider necessary to maintain law and order. In other words, we're going to use the patrolman we have available, and all the other forces, and we will do take any other step. We need them if necessary, we call the guard. If we thought that's necessary, we've got them alerted, because we all want to protect the marchers and other folks too. But I just wanted to tell you that I appreciate the fact that you made make an appeal that there's enough people in the state to march without other folks coming in. Well, I would seriously consider doing that. I don't want to wait and hide you. If you send your folks back, as Governor Ellington indicated, you're going to have to have some of them returned to the work they're doing. I don't want that to get out of hand where I'll be called on, and I'll have to go, have to take action. I want you to take the action, if you will, take it with your guard so the governor of the state can do it, and we'll supplement it and support you. What I mean is, I'm not going to take them away, but I'm just saying that if this matter continues on and on and on, we've got to send these people to other parts of the state after the march, so we can handle through the march. But then after the march, if they're going to just stay in this state eight to eight weeks and congregate 50,000 a day, then we're going to have a revolution. Well, I don't mean that you say you use the word revolution. We're just going to have some trouble and we'll have to have help. That's what I'm saying. It's hard to control people. The Pickett's Nine Selma, a picket in private residence, is 30 of them went to the mayor's home, marching around his house, around on his own private property. Well, don't you think we ought to act before it gets beyond where we can? Well, it's not in any such condition as that now. But you felt like it. We ought to have some guard caught up. Well, I've got the guard alerted. And let's see about when the march takes place. We are not worried about the march itself so much. We're going to be able to handle that. But if they are there the next day and the next day and the next day and the next day, that's what we're concerned with more than anything else. It'll be hard to keep our patrolmen away for another two or three or four weeks. And so I don't mean to indicate to you at all that we can't handle the situation. But if they stay on and on and on, that's when it might get unmanaged. Governor, isn't it in the cats and back, Governor? Yes, sir. I think that, of course, whether they stay on and on and on and what happens. I'm staying there to take action, Governor. That's what they're going to do. Well, you mean action on the voter business? I think if that march goes well and goes smoothly and they are protected and there's no incidents, that's the best chance that they're not staying on and on. Well, let me say this, that we're going to, I'm going on statewide television tonight and tell people that I told them at Tuscaloosa that if you want to stand with me, I'm asking you to stay away and use your restraint. And I believe that the people are going to listen to me because the people have fought me in this state and so far they've done what I'm asking them to do. And we are, when we can, in my judgment, we're not going to have any trouble on the march. And if you say that, we'll help us keep them staying on and on. That's what we're going to do. Do you want to say anything? Just to appeal that there's no need for everybody going to Alabama is what I'm trying. We like Kurds, but we're overflowing with Kurds right now. Well, I think, Mr. George, I think this, from our conversations morning and so forth, I think the wisest move you can make is to put your men back out on the highways and call you God, I'll say it in all frankness, because then when they get there, the disbursement of these people is going to be a problem. And that way I think we get it all over with at once. And I think it'll work out the better. Well, I'll tell you this, we've got them alerted. I'm going to do what's necessary and we may do that, but I do think we can handle it right now. Yeah, I think this, I think if they know you're going to call out to God, then this wild element is not going to come to Alabama in the droves that they're going to come under the conditions you're in. That's the thing that I'm afraid of. I'm not afraid of the good people on either side. Well, so if I hate to call out to God, then you're a better life if I'm a tall amount. I'm not worried about that. You can take my word, I'm not worried about that. And I'm standing in front of all these people while we talk. As long as we keep our heads together and cooperate to find solutions. Well, I hope that you're really convinced that I don't want anything to happen. I am, I can tell you that and I feel like I can speak for all the rest of these men. I appreciate you all talking to them. Yes, remember this, we are surveyed and we're going to take what action is necessary to protect. Now, let me say this, when we say protect, it's almost impossible to guarantee that somebody, one person ain't going to get hit with a rock. You know, the president of our nation was slain with all of the tech he had over in Texas and just sometimes can't guarantee that nobody's going to get hit with a rock or something because it can't protect our president from being brutal and slain while sometimes he can't get hit with a rock. You're right, we know that. Of course, we could have anticipated or had any idea something like this might happen while we might have had a guard out. We know we got trouble ahead here. We can see it coming and I sure want to to press the hope that whatever facilities you have that we would not act too late and we're not going to nationalize that guard unless the situation becomes such that we think it's a low in order to require it and it deteriorates and we think the way to do it was a way Buford suggested to me that let's try to get this this stay out of the way and let the march start before people can get there from these other states and you call up your guard let him know that you're going to do it and we'll applaud the conduct to your guard the last time it was used and we'll have people available, alerted if you don't have enough and then that way I think we've taken every precaution and we wouldn't federalize any guard unless it just got to the point where that was all of us left but we won't take this through you as before it gets all out of proportion now you're on the scene, you can sit but we can and if you have a different viewpoint and you think that you've got it in your hand well, George, are you by yourself? Yes, no, sir, now I have Mr. Tramlin and Mr. Jackson That's all right, I'm not worried about them he has my thinking in it and I haven't even discussed this with the president but he has what I've had in my mind all the time this radical element is Blingo and some of the boys are Brad, did you know that? Yes and I think completely removing them from the scene and back on their duties of patrolling bringing in new faces under new conditions I think it's the only way we're going to solve this now I don't think the head of the bank is going to do their office work and we're going to have we're going to have to check about the front we're going to have to cross the stock and stop the front I think that's a good way to express that See, I think very strong the most strength you show right here in this eye this time depends on the quick solution of this thing of course what you want and what we want is to get them out of there I'll show straight the boys to protect the people on the march but I would like for you all to help me after they've made that point now you say they're going to stay here for the problem solved but if everything that they're asking for they'll be here from now on because the people of the state are not going to concede in the next few years Well I don't think you get what we mean there I think the fact is that once the march is over and they're successful under the guard sponsorship then they would move on Yes, well that's that sound that's all right I don't think by that governors and the caretakers get it it means that the whole thing is over but this march you build up to a heck of build up, heck of