that conversation? i feel like nosy neighbors listening on a partyline. he realized this is what got me to go to work for lbj. not long after that conversation dick is called to a meeting by mel morris with lyndon johnson, they want to come up with a vision for what johnson s program is going to be. he was getting the civil rights bill through, the tax bill through, he wanted his own johnson program. the meeting took place in a pool rather than the office. they come and johnson is swimming naked in the pool. there is bill and dick standing with their suits on. he says, come on in boys, don t be squeamish as a swim in the pool he says i want to have my own program. they outline will be the great society. that becomes the first big speech that my husband worked on. he comes up with the phrase great society. medicare, medicaid, everything that will become uniting congress. that s some image. for the history nerds. now you know the rest of the