Chapter 243： : President Johnson begs to come

Chapter 245 President Johnson asks for a visit

The main building of each supermarket is not less than 5000 square meters, the parking lot must be larger, at least three times the size of the main building, and all parking lots are free.

For fruits, vegetables and agricultural products, you can find Crocker Agriculture Group. Their products almost include all kinds of vegetables and fruits, rice, noodles, grains, nuts, meat, seafood, and even flowers.

In addition, the products also include food, daily necessities, clothing, toys, various daily necessities, household appliances, cosmetics, firearms, and ammunition.

As for these merchants, Hardy’s idea is to implement a contract to join and provide goods mode. Tens of thousands of suppliers must suppress profits and make customers feel cheap. This is definitely not a small project.

Hardy looked at the two presidents.

"Hunt, the logistics company has invested 5 million US dollars. The 10,000 trucks belong to you. The staff are all veterans who have retired from the army. The construction of the logistics company is left to you. If there is something that cannot be solved in the middle. Find me again."

"Good boss." Hunter agreed.

"Sam Wharton, the supermarket chain will first build 5 supermarkets, three in Los Angeles and two in San Francisco. I hope to build them in one and a half years. The staff are also veterans. As for the female cashiers, you hire yourself."

"I understand the boss."

As things go on, Hardy waits to see the results. If these people do not do well, change a group of people to continue. He knows that these two industries will have great development in the future. Doing well is only a human factor.

And these two industries are more than just making money.

Chain supermarkets are cash cows, which can provide a large amount of cash. Generally, they can squeeze the funds of merchants for one to three months. After repeated cycles, the effect of this money will be very huge.

And he signed contracts with tens of thousands of merchants, he can control an extremely large industrial chain, which is also very important.

The last point is that his employees and customers are his resources, and even those politicians must treat him respectfully with an industry that occupies such a huge resource.

The same goes for the logistics industry.

Major General Williams is at work. The phone on the desk rang. He picked it up to answer. A male voice came from inside, "Major General Williams, this is the White House office. Mr. President wants to talk to you on the phone."

Williams is just a moment, the president is looking for himself?

Unconsciously sitting upright a bit.

Williams met President Johnson. The president is nominally the supreme commander of the military. When he held a logistics meeting to study how to deal with the discarded materials, the President also participated in the meeting, and Major General Williams was one of them.

The final meeting decided that Major General Williams would be responsible for handling the supplies, or President Johnson himself made the decision.

"Major General Williams." President Johnson's voice came over the phone.

"Hello Mr. President, this is Williams."

"I read the report you submitted. The report says that you have sold a total of more than 400 million U.S. dollars worth of goods in the first half of the year. This result surprised me. Major General Williams, you did a very good job." President Johnson praised road.

"Thank you for your compliment, Your Excellency, this is what I should have done." Williams said modestly.

"Can you tell me what you did?" the president asked casually.

In fact, he didn't want to know how his subordinates did it, but he just couldn't make a phone call.

"Back to Mr. President, strictly speaking, we have to thank a company for this matter. In order to expand sales, we cooperated with a company and outsourced sales tasks to them. They have been helping us with sales during this period of time." Major General Si said simply.

The president is not surprised at outsourcing business. This is the tradition of the United States. All the weapons of the US military are bought from weapon contractors, and it is reasonable to sell waste materials to sellers.

"Which company is it?"

"It is the Hardy Group."

Johnson has naturally heard of the Hardy Group. In the past two years, the Hardy Group has suddenly risen, becoming a large group with assets exceeding one billion in a short period of time.

What people know most is not how much of their assets, but ABC TV station. ABC TV station has been officially launched to the present, but in just one year, it has overwhelmed the other two major broadcasters and has become the United States with the highest ratings. TV station.

Together with the Global Times and their magazines, Hardy Group has now become the top media company in the United States.

"Are you familiar with that Hardy?" President Johnson asked.

This is a bit difficult to answer. Williams thought about it twice, "Yes, and their boss Jon Hardy has a good relationship. In fact, the outsourcing sales of waste materials was also his idea. He said that he was professional. Things must be done by professional people. The logistics department is not a sales department, so it is better to outsource it.

After a meeting with people in the department, I felt that what he said was right. This task may involve a lot of energy. It is better to find a professional company and then give the business to the Hardy Group. With them, it really saves us. It's a lot of trouble, and it's more appropriate than the price we sell ourselves. "

President Johnson encouraged Major General Williams a few more words, and then hung up.

President Johnson stood up and walked to the window, looked at the lawn of the front yard of the White House with his back hand, and meditated.

Would you like to find him to try?

Will he agree?

He is a Californian, and his political camp is probably from the Republican Party. Now Dewey is much stronger than him. Will he choose to support himself?

Franklin Roosevelt, the only four-term president in history, died of illness on the 82nd day after he was elected president for the fourth time. According to the law, Johnson took over directly as the vice president and became the president of the United States.

This year, in 1948, there will be a new round of presidential election. Johnson’s rival is Republican Thomas Dewey. It can be said that everyone feels that Dewey will definitely win this time, and Johnson will undoubtedly lose.

In the last poll, only 32% supported Johnson.

In the newspapers, people preached that Dewey would easily defeat Johnson, and even the slogan read "Welcome Dewey, our next president."

Whether it is a campaign expert or a member of Congress, or even within the White House, even within the Democratic Party, most people feel that there is not much hope for Johnson's re-election this time.

Dewey was funded by a consortium to give speeches everywhere, and tens of thousands of people would be gathered wherever he went, but Johnson’s supporters were few, and his campaign funding was very tight, preventing him from holding large-scale events.

More newspaper comments, this is the least suspenseful campaign in history.

But how could Johnson be reconciled? He wants to seek re-election. He has been working hard, putting forward his own ideas, and increasing the exposure as much as possible. He has no money to fly on the train, and even gives small-scale speeches in stations and squares.

A few days ago, Dewey accepted an exclusive interview with NBC and talked about it on TV. Later, according to investigations, hundreds of thousands of families watched the show.

Johnson knows that the power of the new media, television, has faintly surpassed newspapers, because it allows you to express your own speech more freely, and makes people see you more intuitively just like going to other places to give speeches.

Rather than the dry campaign lines and political policies in the newspapers.

When Major General Williams talked to him about the Hardy Group, Johnson felt like a flash of lightning flashed through his mind.

In fact, he only listened to what Williams said. At that time, he had only one thought left in his mind. The Hardy Group is the owner of ABC. If he could do an interview on ABC TV, the effect would be far better than Dewey accepting NBC. Interview.

Because he knows that the ratings of ABC TV are now deservedly No. 1 in the United States, even surpassing the combined ratings of the other two major TV stations.

Several of their major programs have long occupied the top five of the audience’s favorite programs, and now they have created a "Super Idol" talent show. It is said that when this program came out, other programs lost their ratings, which scared the other two major TV stations to ABC. When the program time of "Super Idol" is shown, it is changed to junk programs to avoid its brilliance.

But what he worries about is, will Hardy help himself?

This is not just a commercial act, because it involves a campaign, many people will list him as a political act. If Hardy agrees to appear on the ABC TV station, it is equivalent to supporting him.

As a successful businessman.

Hardy will be very cautious.

As a member of the California consortium, he is naturally close to the Republican Party, and the probability that he will become his supporter is very low.

This is where Johnson struggles most.

Suddenly.

The street lights in the courtyard of the White House are on.

Illuminate the front yard of the White House.

President Johnson reacted in surprise. It was already dark and he had been standing here for a long time.

Johnson looked at the light and suddenly made up his mind.

What about failure.

I contacted the other party, and how to choose is the other party’s problem.

He returned to the president’s desk and sat down at the “Resolute Table”, picked up the phone and called the White House office, “Call me back to Major General Williams of the Logistics Department.”

Major-General Williams saw that it was too late and was about to go back for dinner, but when he was about to stand up, the phone on his desk rang, and he picked it up to answer, "Hey, who?"

"Hello, Major General Williams, this is the White House office. The President is looking for you. Please answer the call."

Williams was very surprised. Didn’t he make a call two hours ago? Why did he call again? Didn’t I just boast enough, I was going to boast myself again?

The call was connected, and President Johnson’s voice came from the microphone again: "Major General Williams, you just said that you are very familiar with Mr. Hardy of the Hardy Group, right?"

"Yes, Mr. President." Williams said.

Xin Xin said, do you think it’s inappropriate to find Hardy for business?

"Williams, I have something to talk to Mr. Hardy, can you please contact me?" President Johnson said.

"Ah, of course, I just don't know, what is the matter with Mr. President looking for Mr. Hardy?" Williams asked.

"I hope ABC TV can arrange an interview for me. I don't know if Hardy's side is convenient." President Johnson said.

Major-General Williams is also considered a long-standing officialdom, and he naturally knows what the President’s words mean, "Mr. President, I will help you contact Hardy."

"That's troublesome, I'll wait for your reply."

Hung up the phone, Major General Williams had a lot of thoughts in his mind. He naturally knew that the president's recent form was not good and his approval rate was very low, and he was looking for supporters everywhere.

But will Hardy support President Johnson?

He has no idea what Hardy’s political views are, but he has to make this call. He is just a contact person. As for how to choose, it depends on Hardy’s own decision.

Hadi received a call from Major General Williams. At first he thought he was going to ask about the recent sales of waste materials. He smiled and said, "Reassure the general, the sales are good, and the second wave of materials has been shipped out."

"Hadi, I am not asking this." Major General Williams said.

"Oh, what do you want to ask?"

"It's President Johnson. President Johnson called me and asked me to help contact you. He wants to do an interview on ABC TV and ask if you can arrange it for him." Major General Williams said.

"President Johnson!"

Hardy was surprised when he heard Williams’ words. He didn’t expect President Johnson to take the initiative to find himself.

Hardy is thinking.

Major General Williams did not urge, because Williams knew that this kind of political investment is very important to a businessman, and it may be related to the future development and even the survival of the company.

Both were silent for a while.

Hardy's mind is thinking fast.

He naturally knew about the President Johnson, except that his name is different from that of the later Master Du, other deeds can be said to be similar, even his competitor is still called Dewey.

Now Johnson’s approval rate is very low. As for the reasons, there are international and domestic. In short, almost no one is optimistic about Johnson's re-election. Dewey's voice is very high. Until the last survey in history, Master Du's approval rate is still far. Far below the opponent.

But the last miracle happened. Just in the voting, there was a big reversal today, and Master Du unexpectedly won.

Break through the glasses of countless people.

There are also many people who pay because of their own investment failure including a bald head.

President Johnson in this world, although the situation is the same as Master Du, can he also come back? No one can pack the ticket.

Hardy supports him, which can be said to be a very risky investment.

Hardy is a member of the California consortium. California is naturally a Republican camp. He now supports Johnson in turn. If Johnson fails, Hardy’s life will become very sad. It is normal to be squeezed out by Republican politicians and even kicked out of the California consortium. It's all possible.

Hadi thought about it for ten minutes.

Major General Williams accompanied Hardy in silence for ten minutes.

Finally, Hardy finally spoke.

"General Williams, I hope I can arrange for me to meet with the President and have a serious conversation with him." Hardy said.

"Okay, I will help you contact the president."

President Johnson received a phone call from Williams and heard that Hardy was going to talk to him. Johnson felt that there was an opportunity, "I want to talk to him too, you tell Hardy, tomorrow I will ask him to play at a private golf course in Washington. ."

(End of this chapter)