 Mr. President. Mr. President. Yeah? Send your men's field on the line. Who? Send your men's field. Hello? Yes, sir. How are you feeling today? Oh, tired. Like, you know, I'm awfully tired. You at home at the office? At the office. You going on a session, are you? Yes. Oh, good Friday. Oh, you know, I keep thinking that Saturday I was going home yesterday and I couldn't account for this Dominican thing. Oh, it's Friday. I'm renaming Delweg. You just signed the nomination. Oh, I appreciate it. You call him and tell him. I don't know him. Tell him to do a good job and to drop us a note and thank us. And it's already done. And it'll be up, I guess, before you get out of session today. Well, thank you very much. Thank you very much. Good man. Let me bring this to your attention. We're very puzzled and frustrated on what to do in the Dominican Republic. There are indications of other likely outbreaks in Latin America, Communists inspired Guatemala particularly. Liddy Dirksen comment heard us a good deal the other night saying that Admiral Rayburn announced that we were moving in to keep Castro from taking over, which we didn't say at all. We just said that some of these people were Communists and we had to watch them and it will move two to eight and now it's moved to 45 more. We've got 53 of them identified as Castro trained and most of them are card carrying. They have knocked the Bosch people out, kicked them overboard, and the Castro people are now the leaders in full swing. Well, I tried to talk Dirksen out of those statements yesterday that he made because I thought it might have a bad effect. But I also tried to say that Castro was not involved in this, that you set them in only to bring out Americans and other nationals, that I thought that you were in the right, that we were not intervening, that to show that we weren't, you distributed mid-cost supplies impartially. And what you wanted to do was to get the Americans out of the able government there and withdraw them. That's what we would like to do, but he surfaced this thing and got a lot of criticism, but here is our problem. We have about a thousand there. The Castro forces are really gaining control. They shot down the police station this morning and had 900 police in it and they marched them down the streets as hostages. They've been augmented by 45 new ones. They're going to set up a Castro government. We've got Barsh agreeing to a ceasefire. He says he will at 12 o'clock. We're trying to get the rebels to agree to a ceasefire too. We think we can. We're going to announce a ceasefire. We begged the OAS and somebody in last night. They won't move. They're just to ban them. They're just to dam this fraud I ever saw. I get just this terrible. When you've got men killing and there are thousands of casualties down there and good luck we haven't had any of our own. But they just won't move. They just talk. These international organizations ain't worth a damn except for Wonderdressing. So we said please go. Now they went home to sleep today. So I've got a meeting of Rusk and McNamara and George Ball and Tom Mann and all of them trying to reactivate them and get them up and let us send some people to send them in an airplane so they can go in. They won't do it. If we get a ceasefire announced by Barsh and the general. We think that it helps if we can get the OAS in. Then we're going to also ask them to send any of their observers any military contingents they will. We'd like for them to send them in. We don't think that they'll do that. Then the big question is do we let Castro take over and us move out or what do we do? Well if you let Castro take over you've got to consider Haiti. Oh yeah I've got to consider the whole outfit. Let me show you. The Dominican Republic looks like they may be stirring up to three of these. Now the question, the big question is how can we get as much international cloak as we can and what do we do, how do we get them in or what the hell do. I've got all of my liberals I can. I'm talking to Greece folks. I'm talking to Munoz Marine and talking to the President of the University of Puerto Rico. They're talking to Barsh. They've got Barsh to agree to call for a ceasefire because he realizes that Castro's taking it. And he indicates he's not going to let them use him although we don't know. We've got a call. It came in the last five minutes from the Santa Domingo police. 900 of them in this cell, this port down at the end of the island. And they say send us people to protect us that they're shelling us with cannon. We thank you for using these presenters on them. They've taken 100 of them out and marched them down as hostages and said that if the lawyer lists don't quit shooting they're going to kill them all. We do not have adequate forces there. We have them alerted. We can take them there in 40 hours. The thing to do Mr. President I think is to keep the pressure on the OAS and see if we get a ceasefire. The OAS called for a ceasefire last night. But they went home and went to sleep. They won't meet until tomorrow and I'm trying to get them back today. And I suppose they don't today. Do I let them take over? It looks to me like I'm in hell of a shape either way. If I take over I can't live in the world. If I let them take over I can't live here. That's right. It's a tough one Mr. President but keep the pressure on and if you can use the good officers from Mexico I think that ought to be done for a ceasefire and to get the OAS back to Mexico. Mexico will not do anything but at least it might be the OAS back here. I told them to try to get man to call Corridor Flores because they understand each other and he could tell him what's happening. I'm trying to get some people to go and notify Venezuela. They don't know what's happened. You see this same thing happened to them. But nobody can really come out in favor of Marines. No Mexican. That's right. But I'm putting the heat on but what would you how would you respond to this call for help of the 900 police? If I let them follow you know what the Dirkson's going to do to us. That's right. They're going to heat us up if I let another Cuba come in there and they say why'd you sit on here big fat tail? Well it's... I'm afraid to talk to them Mike because they go out and talk. That's right and police is just as bad as Marines almost if you're going to go and rescue the police. It's just the people will be a little bit different. But if you have 900 police it's some kind of order. They can't protect themselves. Well do you see what the communists have got? They've got these folks. They're really led by about 50 active ones now. But they've got two or three thousand. They've got them on tops of buildings with bazookas and with machine guns and everything else. And they're firing, they've captured 21 tanks from the other crowd. And they're just getting ready to wrap this thing up just like they did Cuba. I'll have to think about this. You please do it and let's talk about it. I just wanted to explore it with you and there's nobody else up there I've talked to. I'm really afraid to talk to anybody. I'm afraid that if I talk to Fulbright I'm afraid that he'll tell New York Times. We went in yesterday and told him about the possibilities of sending some other people out there. General Green's matters you know. I got to New York Times was down here in less than an hour with the whole story. And he just can't talk to Fulbright and Dirksen. On the other hand I think I'll talk to the leaders this afternoon. I don't want them to say they don't know. But I can't have them in the papers and Dirksen just run to us the other night going back to that party and telling them that I asked him what to do and he said I got to don't let Castro take over and that Admiral Rayburn said that Castro was taking over. Then that made Bosch so mad that he almost quit us. He said you charged me with being a communist. The Harold Tribune quoted it and they read it in Puerto Rico. Maybe you ought to tell Dirksen that if I'm talking and it might be called but for God's sakes that we just can't talk like the other night just tell him I called hell all over this hemisphere because somebody don't tell him he did because somebody said that Rayburn said this and they claim that Dirksen forwards what the Newspaper boys say. And then you think about it, Mike, give me a ring. Bye.