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e. Do not accept the idea that it's easy as we've seen in the newspapers, as we've seen on television, as we've seen on radio for a young man to buy his way out of the draft

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in South Vietnam. I don't accept the idea that the Assembly of South Vietnam refuses to take in the. I think that this is much a political and diplomatic effort as it is a military effort and I think we should have been more emphasis in these important

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areas. It's not that the problem will disappear. It's not that there is an easy answer to Vietnam, but I do not accept the idea that Americans are drafted at the age of 18 and 19 and have to goto South Vietnam and fight. While the Vietnamese government

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refuses to draft their 18 years in 19 years, central interests of the United States are not directly threat. I would propose this simple, functional test. We should give no more assistance to a government against any internal threat then that government is capable of using itself through

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its own agencies and its own instruments, he started. We can help them, but we cannot again try to do the job for them? Yes, that is a resident of the private sector. Easy. Easy, wasn't it? Oh, okay. E l get it. Yeah, there. And eso

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you're talking to him. McCarthy delegates were bound for you're accurate to suggest that the greatest number of votes are actually in non primary states. But in my experience, I have found that the political leaders in those states are interested in, uh, which candidate can best help

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their ticket, who can win support to assist their party. And they're interested in seeing how these candidates do with the electorate in these other states. Your mother has been quoted in the newspaper is saying that we have money. It's our money. And if we want to

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spend it on campaigns, that's perfectly all right. There's nothing unethical in it now. Do you agree with her on this? This is one reason why we didn't make mother our finance chairman. These young Children to grow up so that they get decent jobs that

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they could make a salary so that they could raise their families way haven't done right by the previous generation of many of our whites. Many of our blacks, many of our Mexican Americans and many of our Indians, and I think we have an obligation and a

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responsibility to take care of the next generation of Americans. And I intend to do that if I'm elected president. Oh on I don't think the answer to that. I don't think the answer to later on in their life is the welfare system. I don't think the

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handout or the Dole is satisfactory. What we want for our citizens, what you want here in Oakland and what we want across the rest of the country are jobs at decent salaries, so you could raise your family and dignity and honor. That's what I intend todo

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on that involves also that involves also decent housing for all of our citizens. I don't think it's satisfactory in the United States, where we have a gross national product of more than 800 billions of dollars, way have a high percentage of our population which is living

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in dilapidated and run down housing on the housing programs that have been sponsored by the federal government over the period of the last 20 years have been unsatisfactory and inadequate, and I intend to make a change if I'm elected president e just doing it just like

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a skin job. You wanted to use the founder later. All right. Would you like mhm next time? San Francisco, when I come home, go to your what? Like right? Yeah. What is that? Let me talk about innocuous. Thank you. Guardian times over there for Pat Polson.

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I think he got in the race too late. I've seen him on television. I think he's ruthless and they shouldn't be permitted to run e wait up. People do not really believe around the rest of the

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world. Many people do not really believe that we were interested in finding a peaceful solution to this agonizing struggle. I think we've added to that. And then misinterpretations and misunderstandings of the last few weeks. Senator Kennedy first brought his campaign to Northern California in March. He

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began in Monterey. He had begun his race for the presidency March 16th, going to the Senate cloakroom in Washington to make the announcement the same room John Kennedy had used for the same kind of announcement eight years ago. Also, like his brother, Robert took his quest

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for that office first and foremost to the primary elections, and for a time it was 1960 all over again. The Kennedy style the Kennedy people, the Kennedy wit, the Kennedy victories, then Oregon, where the bubble burst in California, where he would have to win to continue

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and where, for the first time, Kennedy would have to come back from a defeat. But Oregon was still a question and a hope when Senator Kennedy began campaigning here, campaigning on several basic themes that would be repeated. High on that list was Vietnam. But if there

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was one element that marked the Kennedy campaign here, it was his report with the crowds who came to see him because invariably it turned out that a good portion of those who came to look also came to touch, and the senator liked it. The wild motorcades,

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the waiting into the seas of grasping hands, the squealing girls, the general overall frenzy that followed him were repeated over and over again in Northern California. We also saw some of the Kennedy style in the family campaigning. Edward Kennedy was a frequent visitor to the Bay

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Area and those hectic days before the primary voting, and you caught some of the Kennedy thinking about these things when Rollin Post talked to Robert Kennedy's brother May 10th. Mrs Rose Kennedy may not have been finance chairman, but she was indeed part of the Kennedy campaign

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here, hosting a long line of well wishers who passed through the reception line set up on behalf of the effort for Robert Kennedy at the Fairmont Sunday, May 10. The nightclub scene was also part of the Kennedy campaign here. For one night, Station J became Bobby's,

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even though it was Teddy, once again, who had the honors. We will further remember the word debate when we think about the 1968 California primary campaign of Robert Kennedy in Northern California. We were involved in two, actually the first between Ted Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy before

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a labor audience, and only after an argument on whether or not Robert Kennedy was supposed to be there. The other debate was just last Saturday, and both McCarthy and Kennedy had to cross picket lines to get at it. But both did, and the much heralded debate

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was finally brought off. For Kennedy to have to cross the picket line involving a minority group argument was ironical as he had pegged so much of his effort here in the minority group areas and sought their votes with such a determined effort. But obviously, it was

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not all the love feast for Robert Kennedy here or anywhere. Perhaps the most vocal effort of those who disagreed with him came at his University of San Francisco speech April 19th. But even in what appeared to be the most uncomfortable of situations, the Kennedy wit nevertheless

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managed to surface. Robert Kennedy's effort here and in the entire state was, of course, successful, and they will have to be some hard political questions asked and answered. Now concerning that victory and his others. But not today. Right now, there is only the realization that all

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the similarities between John and Robert Kennedy have come full circle, if not in the heights of their careers, at least tragically at the ends of them. Paddle Brian Eyewitness News