 Thank you, ma'am. Thank you, dear. Hello? Mr. Pearson? No. Thank you, sir. Thank you, ma'am. Well, you talk like you're not pretty good. Did you have a hard Sunday at that old farm? Yeah, it was such a hard Sunday. I had relaxed a little bit. I felt better. I see why you give away fertilizer. Well, for Lady Bird's project, it's been around Maduro, and I say to Pearson, it's best Maduro. All cow, no bull. Where do you get it from? You manufacture it? No, I got a lot of cows out there at the farm up in Maryland. Oh, that's where you get it, huh? Well, of course, a lot of people say that I got a lot out of my typewriter, too. The young festival's name for you was out there. They were supervising the cows. And we're milking 83 cows. We get a lot of manure. Can you break heap on it? No. No, I don't. And does every dairy man lose money? No, no, I tell you, if you're Phil Graham's brother down in Florida, it makes a lot of money, because if you get a lot of cows, it's like any big operation, small businessmen can't make money, but the big fellas do. Does Phil have a bunch of them down in Florida? He's got 2,000. His brother has 2,000 cows in Miami, outside of Miami, and in northern Florida. I think he's got more than that now. He really goes into it. Say, I've got a problem. Did you see Jack Anderson's story yesterday? Yes, I did. I never heard of that. Just never heard of it. Not one part of it. At any time. I told Jack. I planted that to hurt the program, the Democratic program. We didn't have any meeting schedule. We haven't during the voters' rights. We only meet when we've got things coming up. They've had the telebuster going through four weeks. I've been getting things through the Senate wonderful. I'm very happy. I didn't care one way or the other about poll tracks. I didn't talk to anybody. I'm not mad at Mansfield. I'm very happy with Long. I'm depending on Long on the tax through Berks Committee and through he works very well on even medical care. He'll have some amendments, but he'll help us. I'm not unhappy with anybody in the Senate. Not even that he can live because I don't care much one way or the other. Somebody must have planted that. They quoted what the White House felt and how I felt. If I were Mansfield, I'd be mad as hell. I'd be mad as all my word of honor. I never heard of a word of it. I was a clear blue and I thought that it was all clear and responsible to do me that way. I thought it was kind of a funny story too. I talked to Jack about it and I cautioned him a little bit about it. In fact, I cautioned him very definitely, but he claimed he had it right. I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll talk to him again. I was out of town part of last week. I had to go out to California. If it's not right, I will definitely leave it to Jack. I'll write something to the contrary. I'll straighten it out. I just don't care about writing it. You might ask, I don't know who it would be, the source. Larry O'Brien is the only one I know. I don't meet with him every Tuesday. I meet with him when we have things to do and sometimes I meet with a house one week and some the other. It looks like to me the facts are pretty well sure though. We've got motor rights up there and have had it. Last week we didn't even have the cloture petition file and although I talked to Mansfield a long time on general foreign policy matters as I do get every week and he's always available and he and I have never had a quarrel I've never criticized anything he's done and I thought he'd been awfully helpful to me and I thought the Senate had. I rather think that we've got more done in the Congress and nearly any administration in history with our medical care and with their school bill. I'm afraid these senators will see that and think that we're fighting and the Democrats are divided and the Republicans are doing their best to make out like they're the sole supporters of my program and we've had some very bad injurious hurtful reporting George Ball told me he sat down with Kate Graham and Hal Friendly and they said they just they had a complete new conception when he told them what our purpose is in Dominican Republic where what we've been trying to do they just couldn't believe that this is what's happening they were very pleased but we've had some bad reporting down there but I don't want to get anybody to thinking that I'm at odds with McCormick or Albert or Mansfield or Hale Boggs or Long. They have all been very cooperative and they have a general feeling that I call every congressman to every senator I never do I've had them in the White House for briefings like they do like a kind of procedure to have an House comment and answer questions instead of a simple reception but I always work through my leaders just like I work through my cabinet if it's a labor matter I look to works, if it's a treasury matter I look to valor, if it's a defense I look to McNamara I may not agree with McNamara if I don't I call him in and say I have doubts about it and we reason it out pro and con and he agrees with me I agree with him or we have a moderation of it and that's the way I do with my leaders I never go direct to a chairman or to an individual unless the speaker and the majority leader and the chairman asked me to only, I have just the only case it happens, part eight they asked me to call a good friend of mine maybe Jack Brooks and ask him to talk to somebody and I will do that on two or three occasions but by and large and Mansfield has always told me that if a senator calls you up and asks you about anything, any of your program you tell him to see me I've gone over it all with you and I know the Senate's views and you tell him to talk to me and that's the way we've done it and we haven't had a crossword, haven't had a disagreement but I'm afraid that a new senator may be harsh from Oklahoma or someone from New Mexico Montoya will see this article will say well God damaged Johnson's presence unhappy with Mansfield and cause troubles there and unhappy with Russell Long will say well hell that's on Johnson if he thinks that I can't vote for the repeal of Vodax but why the hell is he telling me it ought to be repealed I told him all the first part of the year that I wanted to vote at 18 repeal it they could do it by constitutional means I don't want to fuss at Jack I asked Bill Montoya if he'd ever heard of it he said no I asked him anybody talk to him he said no I said a little Jack contact you and he said yes but I haven't seen him in a month I asked Larry O'Brien he said he couldn't conceive of it because he had his canceling meeting whenever he did have one schedule and he had us saying this about Russell Long and we didn't care I told him not to eat mask Russell one way or the other to just let the Kennedy boys and the rest of them do what they wanted to let cats and back take care of it if cats and back couldn't handle a Kennedy's or vice versa it wasn't anything to get in I felt like it ought to be repealed and I just wanted to repeal it that's where it could so if you look into it I wouldn't correct it but I wouldn't want Mansfield and Long to feel like that I had read it I think I know how I can handle it diplomatically I just I don't want to fuss I don't want to be sensitive I don't want to grieve but if somebody came in there and told me the group person thought I was terrible and hated me I know you'd want to correct it and I don't feel that way about Long or Mansfield or the Senate I'm damn proud of it if they never do anything to pass the education bill I think I had the biggest year ever but I'm going to pass medical care next week and voters right this week and I'm just going to town well you're at you're at just a thousand percent right and by God you had one the hell of a one the hell of it I'm trying to say that you just touch those bases with Long and Mansfield I don't want them to feel that the Democrats ought to be split up and go in opposite directions and kill a lot of our good program I've got beautification I've got pollution I've got all this voters right this week I've got medical care next week higher education the next week I don't want them to get cross ways with me right now because somebody thinks that Johnson's mad at him called him not I'm sorry about it I never mind don't worry about it just let's get it straightened out and go on from here listen I talked to you know I talked to you about that German editor you said you could see him socially could he be invited some kind of a party at the wine house or tea or something I'll have to talk to Basin we'll see all right you talk to her too I met her two years today okay I didn't see what we'd do fine thank you