 Well, I've got this thing worked out now they rather think that we don't want to have any publicity on the big mission because it would cause you them to have to explain to Congress that the commons that he hadn't changed his policy and They just ought to go on the basis that Tyler's going to be there and you're going to other places, but they ought to arrange these meetings and that you ought to Certainly hit Paris and London pretty hard possibly Greece a little bit on our Cyprus problem But Vance is going to meet with Tyler today and you anytime you three can get together And see what these countries are doing that take good stop. I hit butler pretty hard on it this morning I told Rob butler that He was talking to us about gaming and what he wanted us to do and so forth and I said well We just by God don't want to be open to this charge our friends are selling anything to Cuba Oh, Nixon's run around over the country raising hell. You just find some way to avoid it So he's heard it loud and clear and he's taken it back to Hume But what I would like very much for you to do and the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Defense would be let us in the plane and You take Tyler not take Vance because that blows it up a little bit Kind of a military mission and if they they had to say they had to continue to sell Why then it looked like we had a failure of a mission whereas if you went in privately and quietly You could get them to reduce it and it'd be a success Go to Paris Go to London. I haven't talked to Rusk about it, but I would thank you probably ought to go to Greece and talk to their Prime Minister Talk to him not only about shipping but about Cyprus and tell him not to overplay his hand there now See if you can do any good with him then come back. We'll make a second trip to Tokyo You know one thing bothers me is I'm you to a friend dick Russell Well, I wouldn't do that you're gonna be away anyway I Don't want him to think I'm doing it cuz I wouldn't do it to that at all. I don't know when it's gonna be in I don't want to cause that I'd rather lose the government than to have you and dick fall out and I don't want to be charged with being the Instruments for trying to get a little wave because I'm not doing that at all. I don't want to do that I don't think y'all either. I was going to be way, but on the issue over the weekend I don't want him saying that I'm trying to plot though to beat him this way Don't you tell it? What I do just tell him I was gonna go go for the weekend and that you've got to Make couple extra stops and you'll be back on the for him to figure out what day that he needs you and But I don't you leave him blaming me because I resigned before I'd heard his feeling Come while I'm away Better than I did I tell him that I was going on this trip, but I planted a long time and not to have his cloture vote The day you're gone and that you've got to go to Paris in London. It'll take you one day there and That you've got to go where was it you're going Geneva? No, I first going to the Hey, that's the first speech. It's the 15th anniversary of the exchange program. They asked me a long time ago And then mark that's the 50th anniversary of the then Denmark America Association, which was the first Exchange program one of the first Started 50 years ago That was what's been said for a long time and I would Now I tell him but I wouldn't tell him and Johnson's called me because he'll think it's a trick Well, that's what I just what I was so I just tell him that I was going to have to have these two speeches And and I'd sandwich one day in these others if I could if I didn't why we'll give it up go some other time But I just thought it would hip I thought number one it would make it easier for you to make your trip. You can make it quicker and more comfortable number two, I thought it would give you a little Participation and what was really happening that was awfully important and I thought you You with your good offices could have some influence I think if you were a good salesman talk a little tough I think that it could cause them to close things down from now into the year and make us easier to beat nixon and Trade my vote I'd be awfully careful. I don't think I'd tell him and I was going to do this demonstration stuff because he'll think it's a Select trick of Johnson I Just tell him about the other two and If if he doesn't want you to go then that's your decision. I don't know what I do but Well, I I'm so committed hell. They've got Well, I just tell Russell I had these two speeches and how long it's going to take you Tell him to range his schedule accordingly and if he needs your vote why he better Do his talking if he doesn't want I can't report that and talk me out of the other I can't talk down about that. That's right. Well And I wouldn't mention ours because he'll think you had then What I mentioned is one thing what the damn press is going to say is nothing We can't you can't go into these places without being picked up the press Well, I just say I paid a courtesy call on the prime minister and the president So I do Just that I was here And I have to make these speeches and just pay the courtesy call because if you go in to this purpose They'll all have to deny immediately if they do anything It has to be secret because it's almost like a going into normity because a butler and And humor will have to come out and say hell. Oh, we're not going to agree not to do any shipping On the other hand, you can get an agreement out of them to curtail it practically to nothing And you can show them what we're cutting down the the exchange that we've got And uh Sive ants and and this fella will be Tyler be ready to go over it with this afternoon And Do it in the morning One of your secretaries call them. Tell them to come to your office at 10 o'clock in the morning or whatever time you can Think yeah, you got a meeting in the center southern Right after that one is over. I'm gonna have to tell him It's a kind of embarrassing thing for me. You know, god damn it. I'm never very I know it. I know it. I know it. I'm really a boat with you. You know, I know that I feel like a traitor, you know, the Kim so had all these damn hell sure does. I know it does Well, I Well, you just I'm like sam going with you and dick. I love them as much as you to include me out I know it, but I've got to do it and you Don't you let me ask you do anything or then appear with him But if you're going anyway, I sure I want to make it a little more comfortable. Give you a little sense of of Really help and do this thing and I think with these two men giving you some sport there That when you went in that you could lay it on the line. I think you stop this trade until we get rid of next That's my judgment You call them in the morning and you handle Russell yourself A wonderful job Thank you, Bill You call a bunch of them and then You call these two fellas in the morning and get together and then I'll talk to you before you leave