 Good morning, Mr. President. How are you? How are you feeling? Pretty good. That's good. I'm very glad to hear that. Look, I'm coming in to Washington. This is my first trip out of town to chair the citizen's poverty conference on Wednesday and next week. And if your schedule was permit, I'd like to visit with you briefly sometime on Tuesday, preferably in the afternoon, late as possible. All right, I think so. Okay, we're going to be here Tuesday, and while Ruth is coming down, I'd like to see you there. Yeah, we can do it. Well, I can't say right now, because I'm not at my desk, but I'll have my person call your secretary, and my guest will be at 5.30, 6.00 somewhere in the late latter part of the afternoon. All right. Wait a minute. Oh, no. We've got a bunch of congressmen coming in this 6.30. He thinks 1 or 1.30, I usually don't go to lunch till 2 or 2.30. Would that suit you better than... I'm just going to see Hubert at 1, but I can chuck a wrap. Uh, if you want to, we'll just tentatively set it up, say 1.30, and you can see him right across the street and come right on over. Very good. All right. We'll tentatively set it at 1.30 Tuesday. 1.30, and I'll double connect when I get in there. All right, now. Any other news? Well, I'm working on a number of things. I don't think we'll be able to do them, but I won't take your time now. I'll talk to you about a little bit. There's one thing that I'm very distressed about, and I need some of your thinking, and I don't want anybody to know it. I'm taking it up with you because I think it would hurt us instead of help us. Barbara Ward told me yesterday, and I've had this report from several intellectuals around that in their judgment, they're more thinking people. Thinking about improving their land and their life than they have observed in America in any period that they've known it. That they find that the county judge and the mayor is really talking about poverty. Right. That the hospital people are really talking about putting an X-ray wing on and having a better diagnosis at the center. They're talking about beauty and getting rid of the cars. They laughed at the people and they said billboards a few years ago, but now they're really concerned and they're fussing at the junk yards along the road and the pollution of the rivers and the whole natural beauty thing. There's been more editorials about it and more people about it. More garden clubs are getting interested. And I really feel that and I see it in my mail and I hear it in people I talk to. So I don't believe I'm being misled. Now if that's true, that's a good sign and something we want to build on. I gathered from the senate chairman the other night beginning with Byrd and going down the list of all the chairman and the committees in the senate. They all were pretty cooperative and wanted to help on practically all of my legislation. They've gotten a little plaque the last day or two on the Catholics being able to get a pencil and a tablet. They don't get for 100 million all of the tablets in the country. The bill, all of it goes the other way. But there's some of them trying to stir that up a little bit. But we hope that we can get it past and looks like we will before we get that torn. We will have the greatest breakthrough in our lifetime. But with the voice that somebody had really gotten to talk to. Because he's not a creative or original person as you know. And was very adamant and very opposed to taking this 3% of the highway trust funds at the present law that Harry Byrd even approved many years ago under Eisenhower allows you to take to beautify. And he just said that you just can't do that and you better not touch that and if you do that we'll just have a war and so on and so forth. Now somebody you are 100% right on the basic feeling you know what's happening in America Mr. President people are beginning to understand that just more gadgets is not the purpose of our life. They want beauty, they want depth, they want human values and this is I think one of the most significant things that's happened in this country in the last 100 years. Well that's what Marlboro was saying yesterday at launch here. Absolutely right, that I see that all over this country I've organized the last of 6 o'clock in my own little community here a citizen's conservation committee and I've got the people in this community more excited about cleaning up a little stream that goes through here. This is going all over this country. That's That's exactly what we feel now where would that be coming from from Michigan? Why would they not want to now bear in mind that Harry Byrd when they originally Bob Kerr when they originally passed this bill they were excited that out of the total sum we've spent 90% on interstate highways but the not to exceed 3% of the fund can be used by the State Department Highway Department for beautification and planting grass along the shoulders and planting wildflowers and improving it and getting things out of the way to the State Department to order the Bureau of Public Roads to order the State Highway Department to make use of that they don't have to it's optional but I ask them to now Pat comes in and tells me that if we intend to use any of this trust fund money for this for this screwball stuff then he's not going to permit it now he's real tough he must not quote me you just must get the positive affirmative people to see how in your state where you're producing all these automobiles we're going to produce them anymore and we're going to have travel USA and we're going to put on a real campaign to go out getting all of our money in his hotels a billion a hand we're going to try to make them see America and go to Wyoming and go to Colorado and take the kids out on Sunday afternoon and where the auto workers are trying to lead and sponsor are we sure want to make these places attractive to drive on because we'll make more automobiles sell more you got to find some positive affirmative approach now you and tell them not to take the ball from there but that is dangerous to my program for I'm going to pick this one up let me just take one other point here if you ever drive down a double highway with a big the entire park is just in the middle of it that would be an unfortunate factor because we can't wait until the car is going one way that's exactly right and we've got to do things like that Mary Lasker is taking Park Avenue and put flowers down the middle of it and got everybody excited and talking about it and they can stay in New York City because of it now my natural beauty message is going up Monday and it is an eloquent thing Dick Goodwin and some of the boys have worked very hard with Lawrence Rockfell and Stu Udall and the National Park people and they've got a the biggest zip that they've had since Roosevelt since the CCC came and they're just really walking on air and we think it'll be our best message and it'll give you something to tie tie into when you come Tuesday but please arrange a meeting where you can talk to them about the interest of the auto workers and seeing USA by car thank you bye