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family to be sent to washington. >> senator kennedy, where on the scale between extremely conservative and ultraliberal would you place yourself? >> well, i certainly consider myself a liberal. >> uh-huh. >> when you arrived in the senate, how were you received? >> very well. the members of the senate were extremely kind and hospitable to me, extremely helpful. and i've only made one speech. that's been a major speech, and that was on the question of civil rights. i have seen what discrimination at home does to us. this is not a political issue. it is a moral issue. >> i was very conscious that that whole move to strike down the barriers of race, was perhaps the most difficult crisis that the country has come to grips with. and the president wanted to make the progress in civil rights, recognized the moment in terms
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of american history, so was a very emotional time with the lunch counter sit-ins, the dogs, biting at students from george wallace, and the school house door, with calling out the national guard in southern states. >> go home! >> and it was a time when there really had to be strong presidential leadership. >> we are confronted primarily with a moral issue. it is as old as the scriptures and is as clear as the american constitution. >> president kennedy was the one that called it the greatest moral issue that we face, the first president to do so. and i think that that really goes back to the time of my mother's sort of teaching, and the lessons that she was able to give to us, in terms of the discrimination against the irish in boston. which made a very powerful
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impression upon her. she was there when there was an issue at the time of my grandfather's time. and this i think, made a very powerful impact on both of my brothers and the great challenges that we faced on the discrimination and civil rights. >> the president, it now seems unlikely that you will get a civil rights bill in this session of congress. does that disturb you? >> i think the longer the delay, i think that -- yes, i think it is unfortunate, and i'm hopeful that the house will certainly act on that in the next month, maybe sooner.
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the scene in washington this morning, thousands and thousands of people streaming through the capital rotunda to pay their last respects to president kennedy. >> three members of the family, mrs. jacqueline kennedy in the center, and the two kennedy brothers, who serve the united states, ted kennedy, senator united states senator from
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massachusetts, on her left, and on her right, the attorney general, robert kennedy. >> i'm sure that people watching would like to hear from you how mrs. jackie kennedy and the two small children are getting along. >> well, they have their good days and their difficult days. >> the -- john, the young boy, is extremely vigorous and interested in everything, and caroline gets along quite well. >> they have an understanding of what happened?
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>> well, i imagine as much as children can have. >> his life and death had a meaning, it is that we should not hate but love one another. no memorial or eulogy would more eloquently honor president kennedy's memory than the passage of the civil rights bill, for which he fought for so long. it is in this spirit that i hope the senate would pass this bill. >> we interrupt to bring you this bulletin. a plane carrying senator edward m. kennedy to the massachusetts democratic national convention reportedly crashed tonight. kennedy is reportedly injured.
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there are two other occupants in the plane tracked in the wreckage. >> we're not sure whether the senator birch bayh was with him or not. the two senators stayed in washington to vote on the civil rights bill this afternoon. >> i felt this tremendous impact of the crash. i was conscious of sort of sliding along the ground very briefly. and then there was complete silence. and senator bayh called my name a few times but i couldn't really couldn't respond. >> i went back and yelled at him again and this time he sort of mumbled and i got ahold of him. >> he pulled me out of the plane and my legs fell to the ground. >> doctors said today he's probably not paralyzed and will probably make a complete recovery. two other men senator's aide and ed moss died after the crash.
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>> i always remember the loss of my great friend, ed moss and i always remember birch bayh really saved my life, dragged me out of that plane, risked going back because it could have caught on fire. >> mr. president. >> my friend, i'm sure glad to hear your voice. >> thank you so much. >> you got a bad break. but my mother used to tell me that things like that develop character and it will make you stronger when you get older. >> well, i don't know, i'm looking forward to getting back. >> give joan a hug for me. >> certainly will, mr. president. >> my brother, bob, had a great sense of compassion and a great sense of empathy. he was strongly committed to making the country a better country, and the world a better world.
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>> he'll make a speech if you don't look out. >> any of you from new york? >> over the past few weeks, many leading members of the democratic and liberal party here in the state of new york, have talked to me about being a candidate for the united states senate. so, if nominated by the democratic state convention, i shall resign from the cabinet to campaign for election. i shall devote all of my efforts and all whatever talents that i possess to the state of new york, this i pledge. >> during this election year of 1964, senator kennedy cannot visit us in our factories, in our shopping centers or in our homes, but here from his hospital room, senator kennedy speaks to you now. >> well, i'm coming along now. the doctors estimate that i'll be out of the hospital around christmas time. i'm planning on thanksgiving. i haven't mention that had to
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them yet, but i plan to in the next few days. i pledge to you my every effort to the citizens of massachusetts and the people of the commonwealth in the united states senate in the years ahead. >> it's a great pleasure to introduce my seventh child, robert francis kennedy. >> i want to thank my mother for the kind introduction. >> my mother was really what we call honey fitz's daughter, the great mayor of the city of boston. and he was very close with my mother. and she had this sense of communication with people that was just extraordinary and she was a terrific politician. >> major struggle between my younger brother and me during this campaign was where she was going to spend her time, whether she's going to be here or in that other state to the north. >> so i need your help and your support. >> i need your help and i need your support.
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>> vote for edward m. kennedy for united states senator. >> let's put robert kennedy to work in new york. >> i think that we can make a difference. >> cbs news coverage of election night continues. >> in the big senate race in new york, senator kennedy, he will be senator kennedy, senator kennedy elect, won by 54% of the vote in new york. >> in massachusetts it was another sweep for the kennedys. senator edward m. kennedy ran up a victory of landslide proportions to join his brother robert on the floor of the senate. >> i remember very well the wonderful pictures with my father when he was recuperating from a difficult heart condition
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and i was recuperating from a plane crash. we had a wonderful opportunity to spend probably six weeks together every day, both of us recuperating back. it was a very touching and wonderful time. erything he needo succeed. mom: that's why i go to walmart. vo: find all the brands those other stores have but for low walmart prices. vo: like dell, hp and toshiba. save money. live better. walmart. your body needs sleep to feel healthy... to feel better.
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time in terms of the service in the senate. >> captain, captain. >> where is your civilian affairs officer? >> i went there in 1965 as a chairman of the refugee committee. after spending seven or eight days there, what struck me at that time, was just the appalling, appalling destruction of life. in the civilian population, the creation of massive refugees, and the loss of refugee and civilian life at that time.
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>> i come back deeply disturbed from vietnam. my brother bob and i were very much involved in the political debate and discussion, working with our colleagues, to bring an end to the war. >> senator, are you and your brother, robert, busy building a kennedy wing of the democratic party? >> not at all. >> aren't you establishing, both of you, sort of an independent position of the president? >> let me say particularly in response to the vietnam issue, this is a -- i feel a much too important question and issue for any kind of partisanship. >> we are spending $2 billion a month. to defend the freedom of 14 million people in south vietnam. why shouldn't we make the same kind of effort for the 20 million people of the negro race right here in america?
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>> there's repeated speculation that your brother robert will seek the democratic presidential nomination. >> i don't think it's unpatriotic to find fault with the policies that we pursue in that part of the world. >> i wanted him to be president. i thought it was enormously important that he be president. i wasn't convinced at that time that it was a wise decision to run. my concerns were that the opposition to the war was going to get personalized and that something that he cared most about which was the ending of the war, as well as to attention to the problems of the cities, were going to be submerged. after he made that judgment and decision, of course, i went into the campaign with all of my heart and soul. >> i am announcing today my candidacy for the presidency of the united states. >> we've done great things. i think we are a compassionate nation.
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>> the real constructiveness in this world comes not from thanks and not from bombs but the imaginative ideas, the warm sympathies and a generous spirit of a people. >> no one can believe what has happened. it's been just a little over and hour since dr. martin luther king died from an assassin's bullet. >> martin luther king, dedicated his life to love and to justice, between fellow human beings. he died in the cause of that effort. >> in this decade, we have lived through periods of more hate, violence, than perhaps any other time in the history of our country.
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what has become of our land? what disease has affected us as a people? how many good men must we give? >> senator robert f. kennedy has been shot and wounded at his headquarters shortly after making a victory statement in the california primary. >> senator kennedy died at 1:44 a.m. today. he was 42 years old. ♪
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>> from his parents and from his older brothers and sisters, joe and kathleen and jack, he received an inspiration which he passed on to all of us. my brother need not be idealized or enlarged in death beyond what he was in life, to be remembered simply as a good and decent man who saw wrong and tried to right it, who saw suffering and tried to heal it, saw war and tried to stop it.
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those of us who loved him, and have taken him to his rest today, pray that what he was to us and what he wished for others will someday come to pay for all the world. ♪ >> this has not been the first tragedy that has affected my parents or the members of our family. and we pray that it is the last. and each of us will have to decide, in a private way, in our
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for the last ten weeks, i have not been active in public life. i have concerned myself with my family. i have spent much time by the sea. clearing my mind and my spirit of the events of last june. some of you have suggested that for safety's sake and for my family's sake, i retire from public life. but there is no safety in hiding, not for me, nor for any of us here today. like my three brothers before me, i pick up a fallen standard, sustained by their memory of our priceless years together. i shall try to carry forward that special commitment to justice, to excellence, to courage, that distinguish their lives. >> there is no safety in hiding, he said, for himself or anyone else. the party activists have not had
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the heart to talk politics to him that they say among themselves he would be a formidable if not unbeatable candidate. >> i was flattered by the interest, but it was a time of grieving, myself, and the family, and i just didn't think it was right to try and put the family through another campaign. and i don't believe i was set myself in terms of dealing with the loss of my brother to have done it. >> mrs. ethyl kennedy today, gave birth to her 11th child, a girl, six months after the assassination of senator robert kennedy. mrs. kennedy, who was 40 years old, now has four daughters and severinsens. both mother and daughter are in excellent condition. senator edward kennedy and mrs. kennedy stayed with mrs. kennedy in the delivery and recover roms. >> i want to say how happy we
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are today. i told ethyl i think joan and i are going to take this baby home. we think ethyl has enough of them. ♪ >> keep it moving! >> i say to you, we will restore the strength of america. sock it to 'em! sock it to 'em! >> richard milhous nixon will be the next president of the united states. >> we have a new president. he has shown that he's an extremely hard and industrious worker. this morning he indicated that he wasn't going to use the oval room. paper, and she called me up, and
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said teddy, i see where the president isn't going to use the oval room. she said is, i think someone ought to use it. we're looking into that. >> in 1969, we had a republican president. and it seemed important that we begin to have a loyal opposition. and to the extent that i could be a part of the leadership in the senate, it seemed to be both an important opportunity as well as responsibility. and one that i couldn't let go by. >> a new congress opened for business today in washington. and opening day produced an important victory for kennedy of massachusetts. democratic colleagues chose edward kennedy as assistant majority leader in the senate. this opening day of the 91st congress will most likely be the day remembered as the day senator edward kennedy moved out of the long shadow of his two brothers and began to stake out
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his own future. >> senator edward m. kennedy drove a car off a narrow bridge on martha's vineyard, massachusetts. kennedy survived but a young woman with him in the car was drowned. >> mary jo kope cnn e drowned. >> i made an effort to dive in the strong current, exceeded only by my state of utter exhaustion and alarm. i was overcome by a jumble of emotions, grief, fear, doubt, exhaustion, panic, confusion and shock. my conduct and conversations during the next several hours make no sense to me at all. according to police, eight hours elapsed from the time of the accident until he showed up to report it. >> a spokesperson said he might attend the funeral for miss kopechne tomorrow in plymouth, pennsylvania.
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a hearing of the charge against senator kennedy has been scheduled for next monday. >> today, police moved to prosecute the senator on a charge of leaving the scene of an accident. >> this morning, i entered a plea of guilty to the charge of leaving the scene of an accident. i regard as indefensible the fact that i did not report the accident to the police immediately. >> these events, the publicity, innuendo, and whispers which have surrounded them, and my admission of guilt this morning, raises the question, in my mind, of whether my standing among the people of my state has been so impaired, that i should resign my seat in the united states senate.
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>> i've been impacted by a number of tragedies in my life. the loss of life of people, members of my family. those were circumstances which i really didn't have control. i could feel the sense of regret and the sense of sadness and the sense of loss. but this was a circumstance in which i did have a responsibility. in that sense, it was quite different from other life's experience. >> senator kennedy returned to the senate for the first time since his automobile accident and seldom has a return to work been marked by such public attention. >> kennedy said last night he had decided not to resign from the senate. >> i made the decision to continue in public life after the tragedy of chappaquiddick. i'm a very different person than prior to that tragedy. the way that i'm a different person, i think is probably reflected in my own view about, sort of life and people and
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>> senator, there is obviously a great price one has to pay these days for political life. that some have to pay. your brother john thought the price worth paying. so obviously did your brother bobby and so do you, it seems. but when you talk to your own two sons and to your nephews, do you encourage them to go into politics as your father did you? is the price worth the pain? >> well, this generation is going to have to make up their own minds about what they're going to do. 20 odd nieces and nephews of mine, their talents should be devoted towards, not their own personal kinds of satisfactions but towards helping and assisting others. that's really what robert kennedy would have wanted of his children, and president kennedy would have wanted of his. and that can take a variety of
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different expression, it doesn't take necessary that they run for any office, but it -- it's that they devote themselves to the public good, and i think they'll do well. >> so it is worth the pain? >> well, i suppose it is. >> on an occasion such as this, it's a pleasure to introduce my four strongest supporters, my wife, joan, patrick joseph kennedy, edward moore kennedy and kara anne kennedy and with that basis of strength and support, i'm announcing my candidacy for re-election for
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the senate of the united states from massachusetts. >> the next president, not this one but the next one coming up? >> i think if there's been something that our family has learned over the period of time, is that we don't make long-term plans. that's been an experience that we've had. >> at a time when there are high government officials that are playing to the fears and frustrations of the people within our society, i want to be a voice of reconciliation, a voice that appeals to the best within people, within our country, and i return to the united states senate for that purpose.
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>> i'd like to get teddy taped. that's why i want a lot more use of wiretapping. >> supposing it's something that we can really have, teddy or the kennedy clan. we're going to want to run with it. >> maybe we can get a real scandal on them. >> just looking for scandal or improprieties. >> now you're talking. >> you hear about wallace? it's quite serious. >> governor george wallace, of alabama was shot and wounded today while campaigning in laurel, maryland. his press secretary says he is in critical condition. >> he's got one bullet in the stomach and near the spine. and they think he will live. he may be paralyzed, he may not
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be, but be that as it may. >> we've identified the fellow who had this gun and was the assailant apparently as arthur herman bremer. >> can we pin this on one of theirs? >> sure. >> look, can we play the game a little smart for a change? >> just say he was a supporter of kennedy. just put that out. just say you have it on unmistakable evidence. >> there ought to be a record. >> screw the record and put it out. >> it was clear that this was an atmosphere and a climate in -- where the white house was politically taking no prisoners. they were infiltrating the movement. >> kennedy has written asking for secret service protection. >> you understand what the problem is. if the son of a bitch gets shot, they'll say we didn't furnish it until after the election. he doesn't get a thing and if he had a chance. >> i'd do it on the basis though that we pick the secret servicemen. do you have anybody in secret
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service that you can get to? do you have anybody that you can rely on? >> yeah, we got several. >> plant one, plant two guys on him. this could be very useful. >> senator kennedy, there's a thing today that i would love to get your reaction to. it's preposterous. they talk about it as the james bond plot that took place in washington where they found these people sneaking into democratic head quarters with eavesdropping devices. one of them was a cia man. i wear when i heard this over the radio, i thought it was a prank on the local radio station. what diabolical information and secret could there be in there that they would have to go to all that risk and effort to get? >> in the democratic national committee? >> yeah. >> i'm not so sure, but it does -- i don't think any of us really know exactly what they were up to. but this is enormously desperate kind of an attempt by the -- this fellow, who is the head of
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security for the committee to reelect the president. and i don't -- i don't know, really, what -- i don't know -- i can't figure it out. can you? >> good evening. the complicated, confusing, alarming story of political espionage and eavesdropping that has come to be known as watergate today came under the scrutiny of a committee of the united states senate. it's purpose? to get to the bottom of what threatens to become the worst scandal in the nation's political history. >> i do know that there was extensive surveillance on senator kennedy, which i've testified to. >> was this for political purposes? >> yes, sir, it was. >> who else? >> senator kennedy was the principal one, where i would say the greatest amount of surveillance was conducted on senator kennedy and
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subsequently, politically embarrassing information was sought. >> was the fbi aware that this surveillance was for political purposes? >> the fbi didn't perform this. this was performed directly by the white house. >> i welcome this kind of examination. because people have got to know whether or not their president's a crook. well, i'm not a crook. >> senator edward kennedy, his oldest son, teddy junior, 12 years old, had the lower portion of his right leg amputated because of bone cancer. >> i had a son that lost his leg to cancer. that was really one of the raw occasions that have been very close to -- deep in my heart and soul. >> teddy was so overwrought with the news that his son had his leg amputated. over the last several years, teddy had more tragedyies than
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i feel that i speak out on the issues, i call them as i see them. but that's the kind of senator that i want to be. >> three days before public children in boston will board buses to begin the first stage of school desegregation. never before had a kennedy been met with such a reception in boston, he was booed. the crowds urged towards this once favorite son. as he walked towards the federal building, tomatoes and newspapers started flying and the nonviolence stopped. >> senator, how do you explain that crowd's reaction to you? >> i think their first concerns are really not with the issue of
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bussing, but what's going to be at the other end of the bus. >> why did they react to you so violently? >> because first of all, they have very deep concerns about the whole question of the desegregation plan here in the city of boston, and i think that they've -- they're expressing their frustrations and their concerns. >> it was the senator's first public appearance in boston since he was roughly treated by an anti-school busting crowd two weeks ago. but kennedy said that played no part in the decision that it was for personal reasons he had come to this decision. >> it has become quite apparent to me that i will be unable to make a full commitment to the campaign for the presidency. i simply cannot do that to my wife, my children and other members of my family. therefore, in 1976, i will not be a candidate for president or vice president of the united states. >> jimmy carter will be the next president of the united states. >> senator kennedy's office.
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can you hold a moment, please? >> maybe we can get henry royson and two, three republicans to put this in. >> inflation is a clear and present danger for this nation. >> everybody has to -- >> we can't get everybody. >> come on down here. come on now. >> brad, that's all right. >> millions of our fellow citizens are out of work. >> we'll come to order. we have the agenda before us, the first issue. >> do you gather any impression about whether they were going to move at all on the immigration issue? >> it is wrong women and minorities are denied their equal rights. cities are struggling against decay. >> we're going to you sue this matter until the job gets done. >> the president, at that time, was not really challenging the country, and when he was talking about the malaise of the american people, that isn't the democratic party that i know.
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>> we have been able to try and pass this health care for all americans' legislation. >> i have a very fundamental difference with the president carter on the health care issue. >> the next panelist, distinguished senator from the state of massachusetts, edward kennedy. >> thank you very much. sometimes a party must sail against the wind. it is time for the democratic party to take up the cause of health. there probably has not been a family in this country that has been touched by sickness, illness and disease, like my own family. i had a father that was touched by a stroke, and sick for seven years. we were able to get the very best in terms of health care, because we were able to afford it. it would have bankrupted any
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average family in this nation. i've been able to receive it for myself and for my family, just like all of us that are on the tip of the iceberg. way up high in the health care services. we've got the very best, all of us at the tip of the iceberg. but i want every delegate at this convention to understand that as long as i'm a vote, and as long as i have a voice in the united states senate, it's going to be for that democratic platform plank that provides decent quality health care, north and south, east and west, for all americans, as a matter of right and not a privilege. >> his publicity has been almost fawning and standing in public opinion polls high. president carter's standing dismal and going down, with inflation going up. kennedy for president became possible. >> let's take personal considerations. have you promised your mother,
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that you won't run for the presidency while she's still alive? >> i didn't promise her that i wouldn't run while she was alive. but my mother has indicated that she would support any decision that i would make in the future. >> would your wife's well being, in terms of her efforts to deal with her problems, be a factor in making you not run? >> joan has courageously stated, has had a battle with alcoholism, i admire her and respect her for the fort rightness in which she faced this issue and for the efforts that she's making. >> some people ask whether or not you're enjoying this roll that you have, in the sense that you're plague cat and mouse with the president. are you doing that? >> not really. i've stated my areas of difference with the president and i'll continue to do that. >> the growing political frictions between president
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carter and senator kennedy became a bit more lively today. two congressman, william broadhead and tom as downey reported that during a dinner conversation with the president earlier this week, they twice were startled when they harry the president say, quote, if kennedy runs, i'll whip his ass. >> i'd like to ask you in response to the president's declaration that he will whip your asa, if you think he will? >> no. [ sighs ] whoo-hoo! this hair color is a washout. try nice'n easy with color-blend technology. in 1 step, get a blend of 3 tones.
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