Oh, certainly, certainly. Absolutely. Well, undoubtedly, the American
public agrees with me, Nixon got impeached and McGovern got elected
about a month later. Don't you think that the American people agreed
with me in two places, there? [interruption]
. . . being a Democratic nominee, or any other nominee, I would
have voted the straight ticket and left the president vacant if we
didn't have a nominee, but I just voted right on. I would have voted for
most people against Nixon. I don't see how a man can be elected
president and go as high as he went . . . he had to be crooked on a lot
of things. [interruption] . . . yeah, I
put it on the record every chance I get. The government is set up with
three branches, legislative, judicial and
executive, the separation of powers, they call it. By personal
experience, I know . . . and I want this on the record and it can be
used by anybody that wants to use it. The greatest fraud that I found in
eight years as governor, by ninety-five percent . . . ninety-five
percent of the fraud was by the ability of a lawyer to sit in the
legislature and also practice law in the courtroom. That's ninety-five
percent of the fraud in your government. And until that is corrected and
we have a separation of powers, we'll never have anything but corrupt
government. You couldn't have all this government trouble that we've got
in Washington and with the president now, he wouldn't be in all the
trouble that he's in, unless there is all that fraud. All of this with
giving money away all over the world.
Well, naturally, each congressman and senator has got agents up there in
on the giveaway. I don't say that they are in on it. I know that I would
be if I was voting for it and I was a congressman or senator, I wouldn't
have an agent, I would just take my share and have it put in a Swiss
bank and go. You understand? Now, if I was a congressman or a senator
and I was going to vote for that, just to give money away to every
undemocratic society in the world, after our people have fought as hard
as they have for democracy . . . if I was a congressman up there and
voted to give those corrupt South American countries a hundred million
dollars, whatever my percentage was, I would just have it earmarked for
a Swiss bank. And if it was to Argentina or Brazil or Peru, any of those
countries that we have been dealing with, or any of those African
nations, any of them, I would just have my share. I wouldn't have any
agent, I would just say, "Send it to my agent in Switzerland." And I
would vote for the bill, but, "I won't vote for it until I know that my
share is earmarked and I'm going to get it." And a congressman or a
senator that is not doing that is a damn idiot. You understand? And
there ain't many idiots up there. Damn few idiots
up there. That's three hundred billion dollars that my people and your
people have worked for. It has ruined our nation. That's the major
thesis that I've had ever since I was first elected. I made a speech at
the courthouse square on September 30, 1946, before I was inaugurated,
three and a half months before, and I denounced it then and I have
denounced it everytime since. And at that time, I was called a Communist
and I guess that I was a Communist. I don't know, whatever it is I was,
well, I was against that. I wasn't giving them no money. I just believe
in majority rule and if that is Communist, well, I'm a Communist. And
the majority of the people won't vote to give that money away. They
won't do it.
Now, I want to repeat again, if I was a congressman or a United States
senator and voted to give that money away to dictatorships . . . now,
I'm not talking about democratic societies, there are some in the world.
I believe that Finland is and the United States is democratic. England
is not, Australia is a dependency, they've got a governor-general and
all that . . . of course, South America, theoretically, they are
democratic, but they are not . . . France is democratic, West Germany
is, I guess, self-governing. Any self-governing, I exclude them, but to
give money to a dictatorship or a non-self governing nation, if I voted
as a congressman to give it to them, I would want my cut set aside and
any congressman up there that doesn't set it aside for his own personal
benefit, he is an idiot. He ought to be put in the insane asylum,
because he is destroying our nation and he isn't getting no benefit out
of it himself. There is something wrong. Do you understand what I mean?
Huh? Do you, lady?