[applause] thank you very much. Im glad you liked the president. I like him too. [laughter] mr. President , mrs. Johnson distinguished guests, you have done me a great honor and coming here today and made me a very happy man. This is an important hour for the nation. For those of our citizens who have completed their to her of duty tour of duty and moved to the sidelines these people are our responsibility and are entitled among other benefits to the best medical protections available. Not one of our citizens should be abandoned we dont want these people to have anything to do with charity or have them have an idea of hopeless despair. Mr. President , i am glad to have lived this long. [applause] at the signing of the medicare bill, it puts this nation right where needs to be. Your inspired leadership and responsiveness forwardlooking congress, have made it possible for the state to come about. I thank you for coming here. It is an honor that i have not had for quite a while. I will sa
About wilbur mills. Mills told me that by the end of this week, he thought he would have something in shape to come down and discuss with you that he could present in the way of a packet that could be of interest. I told him i had read some articles lately that were a little bit disturbing that indicated something that was happening on the medicare and, indeed that, well, you know better than to the attention to those stories, and i said, i agree with you, wilbur. I just wanted to be reassured and he said, you know you cannot Read Everything you want, and this bill ultimately it has to have the mills stamp on it, and i said well, the president s view is that whenever you want to talk to him, that door is just wide open. He is happy to see you, and he said you just tell him again, as i told you lately last week that just as soon as i am ready to sit down and be able to present think to him that i could spell out that would make some sense and that would represent what would be of intere
[applause] thank you very much. Im glad you like the president. I like him too. [laughter] one of the finest man i ever ran across. Mr. President , mrs. Johnson, distinguished guests, you have done me a great honor in coming here today and made me a very happy man. This is an important hour for the nation. For those of our citizens who have completed their tour of duty and moved to the sidelines, these people are our responsibility and are entitled among other benefits to the best medical protections available. Not one of our citizens should be abandoned we dont want these people to have anything to do with charity or have them have an idea of hopeless despair. Mr. President , i am glad to have lived this long. [applause] at the signing of the medicare bill, it puts this nation right where needs to be. Your inspired leadership and responsiveness, forwardlooking congress, have made it possible for the state to come about. I thank you for coming here. It is an honor that i have not had f
George h. W. Bush. And he was the only republican. He was the only republican. Who came that day. And i always thought it spoke so well of both of them. It did. It spoke well of both of them. Folks, we have to stay on the clock. One thing i learned in television, i know how to get off on time. Thank you very much. You have a great day coming up here. [ applause ]. On our next washington journal, Gretchen Morgenson joins us. Looking at some of the shortcomings of the home loan modification program, which was set up to help homeowners struggling to make their mortgage payments. Then Susan Carlson of the Minnesota Organization on fetal alcohol syndrome about a new study examining drinking and drug use among pregnant teenagers. A after that, john jackson of Conservation Force talks about endangered species and big game hunting. Plus, your phone calls, facebook, comments and tweets. Washington journal is live each morning at 7 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan. This sunday night on q a. Institute n
To put in 400 million, 500 million . What did i say about it . I said, you tell him we had an old judge in texas one time, we called him old wild kelly robert. And he said when i talked to him one time i might have used the constitution. He said, whats the constitution between friends . And i say, tell wilbur that 400 million is not going to separate us friends when its for health, when its for sickness, because theres a theres a greater demand and i know it. And for this bill and my other program put together, i know that. They last longer. Mr. President , you will talk to mr. Gordon. They came to see me. And i, too, was concerned about the impact of the tax. We are worried about that. We minimized the concern they had initially. Weve revised our rates. Were in keeping with their views and i think theyre completely satisfied. All right. What they want me to do most of the spenders said that i was not putting enough money in the economy and id have to put 3 billion, 4 billion in to not