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Over the years, Senator John Kennedy and Senator Robert Kennedy and myself have served you and kept faith with the American working men and women on the Senate Labor Committee. Whether it was for the fight for the repeal of 14 b or scientist picketing, whether it was

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to the opposition to compulsory arbitration or maintaining the strength of the National Labor Relations Board. Improving our unemployment compensation system, raising the minimum wage, preserving the integrity of your organization. There was always a Kennedy in the lead and there was always a Kennedy at your side.

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And regardless of the outcome of this current effort, regardless of the policies decision made by the leaders of labor, we will still be with you. We will still lead the cope fights in Congress. We will continue to make every effort to enhance the dignity of American

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working men. For you are the people that brought industrial democracy to America, you and your organizations that they said we will provide our own food in our own apparel. It sounded like pretty good offer, and I'm or less responded in that spirit, saying, Well, that's really

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all I have is my name and if you want it? Why? Let's run Well. Things went on for a while, and I found that I think there was a stands that left out of the Scripture because they began to sue me for non support. And okay,

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this is where we are in the campaign now. In some states, too much of our political dialogue, it seems to me liberals have been those who wanted to spend more money. While conservatives have been those who wanted to pretend that all problems would solve themselves and

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everybody's been put in a category, he's either a liberal or he's a conservative, Emerson once wrote. The conservatism makes no poetry reason. No prayer has no invention, and it is all memory. While reform, he wrote, has no gratitude, no prudence and no husbandry. But the times

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air to difficulty and our needs are too great for such restricted visions. There is nothing liberal about a constant expansion of the federal government stripping the citizens of their public power the right to share in the government of affairs. That was the founding purpose off this

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nation on. There is nothing conservative about standing idle while millions of fellow citizens lose their lives and their hopes. While their frustration turns to fury that tears the fabric of society and the freedom of all of our people. What the new politics is and what it

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must be and what must be recognized in this country in the last analysis is a reaffirmation of the best within our great political traditions. Compassion for those who suffer, determination to right our wrongs within our nation and a willingness to think. And, as Abraham Lincoln said,

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to think and act a new free from old concepts and false solutions. That is the kind of politics that is the kind of leadership the American people, I believe want this year, and that is the kind of leadership that I believe they're going to receive. I

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think that the true answer for many of these things is the private sector playing a major role and then also, if we can end the war in Vietnam, not only bring American soldiers back, but save the $85 million that we spend every day there and the

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$600 million that we spend every week there. This range a system of block grants to local communities and let them in the last analysis, make the decision as to how they're going to spend the money, whether they're going establishing certain standards at the federal level. But

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let them make the decision whether they're gonna put the money in the field of transportation and job development hospitals or whatever they decide at the local level. Let them take the local responsibility. Obviously, there will be mistakes may. But obviously also the philosophy that we have

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at the moment and the programs that we have at the present time have not been all successful major efforts so that people themselves, that's how this country is developed. The people themselves are developing these programs. I mean actively involved in these programs what was great, so

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tremendously successful in the early 19 sixties with the Peace Corps. I think it indicates that people want to participate on. They want to be actively involved and they want to do things on behalf of others. If anything is come clear to me during the course of

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this campaign is that people want to be involved and that they wanna make sacrifices for others that are willing to make sacrifices for others. If it I will. I will return to being untruth Lis, if I lose in Oregon. Yeah, but s so I think

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I have Thio win in Oregon. I think obviously the most significant primary in many ways will be the one here in the state of California. Oregon is terribly important from a personal point of view, and I think very important and making a judgment of what direction

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the country's going to move in. As I said, if I get beaten there, I think the Vice President Humphries chances of winning the nomination will be greatly enhanced. E Yeah. Hey, Leo, Look at another front senator. Then repeated a theme which is run through almost all

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his speeches. Not only should we get out of Vietnam, but we should stop dictating to other countries how they should live until we put our own house in order. Rollin post for eyewitness news with the Kennedy campaign in San Francisco. Yes,