IFP:130 "At Home With the Kennedys"

On an informal visit to the family of Senator John F Kennedy this morning we will meet Senator Kennedy, his mother Mrs Joseph P Kennedy, his wife Jacqueline, Sister Eunice, now Mrs. Sargent Shriver and his sister Jean, now Mrs. Steven Smith with Steve Jr. If you would like to ask Senator Kennedy any questions about his work in the Senate, you will have the opportunity to telephone later during the program right now to Mrs. Joseph P. Kennedy tonight, for six years, sent my son Jack , who was a candidate for the Senate. We had this little half hour on television.

Many of you, most of you, are right in saying things that you enjoyed it, so we agreed to have it again. this year of course there have been many changes in the family the girls who helped so much before got married and have their own children and so they haven't been able to help that's not like we have a lovely addition and the gas person Jack's wife who has been campaigning with him for the last few months and

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s. I know that many of you have known most of Jacqueline repels a little about the experiences of her as joy in doing so much campaigning lady.

Kennedy since September 15 and traveling around trying to meet as many people as possible. Her youngest son, Teddy, who, as you know, is the campaign manager, set up the schedule for us last summer and now meets with us whenever he can get away from Lois to visit one hundred and eighty-four communities and I think we slept in almost every town in Massachusetts and we should have shaken hands in Massachusetts - well, congratulations, jackets and congratulations - he gasps that he found a right that the campaign of Of course, with us it was a little different because we were born in a political atmosphere, but with you, which is a fairly new experience.

I know Jack has been ungallant enough to say in his speeches that you've been campaigning for 65 years. Of course, I realize you're referring to Grandpa Fitzgerald who carried you in his arms when he was mayor and you were a tiny little baby. Well, that's not entirely true because in those days, of course, women didn't have the right to vote. and that's why we didn't go to rallies and school and go, although I'm surprised that Jack insisted on taking Caroline and her lover. She's back in Boston with us now, but she was very lucky during the first part of our tour to get checked out with the case, we love having her and now.

Speaking about the Jean case, how was this summer for you? Missed her mother, Bobby, with immunity from zero to six children, Jackie, with Caroline and Chris, I was abroad so it's a lot of fun, a nice tour for each other, how did it go, Eunice, a relative? to ride, they learned to swim, and Bobby took them sailing. We have nine of them there between the ages of one and seven. I'm selling the first day I'm teaching them, so they learned to navigate very quickly in the city. Oh, did you? get a chance to go to the premise, they're a little bit younger, yeah, I guess, but I hope it's a good old boy, we'll take them there and Provincetown because I think it's really good for them to let loose. getting into those things and getting interested in things of a historical nature while they're young because it's been then, as they get older, they go faster, that interest and being very inspired by the great speeds of men left before them, I think Massachusetts Of course, it is particularly necessary to express that point of view because we are filled with all kinds of memories and monuments associated with the glorious past, as if everyone could be proud.

I am very happy when I can say the United States Senator's jacket. Massachusetts because everyone knows it for the wonderful Terry Succi coffee shop, so take the kids to see if they see all that stuff and probably one day I hope they emulate some of these great gunmen that came before them, whether it's in this state or in one of the other states now they talk about children. I think we have some pictures of the other grandchildren that I hope the audience enjoys. I know there are bodies of four-year-old Bobby and Maria from Chicago and that's Maria, whose birthday is tomorrow and she'll be turning three. we're getting ready to go on a picnic you live right across from the big park so Moe and I separated a big lawn from your house cornflakes, cold milk and honey we fooled me and they're fast Bobby is very boisterous just trying to play football we had two children my brother Bobby is bitter but everyone tells me that mine is a brighter and covered and happier and stronger Norfolk that makes us aura remember that the body may be listening to this progress they receive your education sooner here we are in the great Lincoln Park Zoo eating the bears, the elephant, straight to the right kid I hope you do it kids, are you available?

Very good loves, offer me the picnic in the park and the afternoon you were in Chicago, of course, everything should be fine, but she is you and I know you, could I upload here the sugar candy that you activated, ah, now I can take it very good. I guess I know enough that your elephants diminished just fine. Rajyam is the president of the Chicago Board of Education, so I'm very interested in teaching Bobby Maria. We don't go to work in the garden, but we teach them in the evenings after dinner. It seems that what we are supposed to learn no longer exists.

This was the body part in McLean Virginia. Here's Bobby showing us some autograph photos we've been collecting for years from the former president. I think this is John Hancock and he walks into the house and that's John Drive to Kathleen, the oldest daughter I've ever met and I think she walks up to the rest of the building at the dance. Cut, in fact, that teacher who can finish and one of the lovely men, even our you think you know he used to be, has a sister, doesn't he, you're a cannon rabbit and always quite nice, or the youngest one is about six months.

This Courtney and look here is the biggest and Bobby and Joe with names our brother Joe Fillmore and the popular glass and lawyer, suppose there is a Peter Lawford with his children and trails on the beach in Santa Monica, where they live in California, it is Christopher is four years old. and Sydney also said that the farthest mystics are swimming and that he is a man who was inside the house and the building blocks. If I was teaching them equipment, this is very dark as you can see and he didn't die, it means my godson because I didn't give the units to your children in their lessons and I say, put your grace, your aptitude.

I am sure that so far the chosen ones. Oh, five, we came here. I realized it as if it were old-fashioned. Have you been on any of the TV shows now? Yes, well, I think the photos of the whole family were very good and I'm sorry that that couldn't come or that Bobby couldn't come with all of his children, but I want to thank all of you for being here and coming from the outlying parts of the country to help us during the last week of this campaign and good morning, ladies, may you be there. I am very happy that you can be with us at

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with my entire family this morning if you wish. to call me with any questions about my Senate record or my stance on any issue, call me right now at stadium 202 704 stadium 202 71 or Oh 272 Jackie Jean and Eunice relax my operators and call me before going to the phones I mean Just a few words about these November 4 elections, one of the most difficult things an official has to do in my opinion is ask people to vote for him.

It is not easy to make many statements about my record or many promises about the future, but let me tell you this in the last month Jackie and I have been to every corner of Massachusetts and for the last six years I have been directly or indirectly in contact with virtually every citizen of the state. I think I know the people of Massachusetts pretty well and I think they know me. I think you know what I stand for, what I am trying to do for our state, and how I believe a public office like United States Senator should be held without me.

I hope I am too presumptuous or taking too much for granted, my biggest concern now is that you go to the polls on November 4th in times like these, when the right to vote and the right to free elections are under attack around the world. I really don't. I don't see how anyone can stay home on election day. Never think that your vote is not necessary or is not important. Never being able to say on November 5, the day after the election, that you forgot to vote or that it was too much trouble, whatever the problem may be.

Whatever party you belong to I hope you go to the polls on November 4th and cast your vote If you believe in what I've been trying to do If you believe in the program to strengthen Massachusetts in the nation I hope you do I believe that it is possible to cast a vote, for which I will be very grateful. I see that the girls have received some calls, so I will answer them directly. The first question is: are we stronger than Russia? I believe that strength is made up of many ingredients that we have. We are economically stronger and politically stronger.

I think our greatest period of weakness is corruption in long-range ballistic missiles, where they have had the advantage over us. I think it will take a concentrated effort over the next two or three years for us to catch them. top I think an effort should be made I have supported strong advocacy in the past and will do so in the future this question is my husband's unemployment compensation check is too small any hope of an increase well it is a fact that the check The average unemployment rate for one of our unemployed workers in this country is thirty-one dollars a week and the Bureau of Labor Statistics has shown that it takes a single person living in one of our cities to survive on fifty-two dollars a week. , so often in the The Senate and Congress have atomically introduced in the House a bill that would have provided for federal minimum standards for unemployment compensation in May; would have meant that an unemployed worker honestly seeking a job would have received compensation equal to 50% of her salary up to two-thirds of the average salary in the state for a period of thirty-nine weeks.

I hope we can achieve this at the next Congress. I think your wife will be a better senator than you. What do you think I agree with this in any case? I have the benefit of advice from her, so maybe I will improve. He is my son and he will be able to enter university. Well, it is a serious problem in the next 13 years by 1970. In other words, we will have in some places three million. boys and girls entering university this year we are going to have six million in the state of Massachusetts instead of around one hundred and twenty-three thousand we are going to have around two hundred and seventy thousand, that means that we are going to have to double our facilities now in the universities private funds, I hope, and I say this is a Harvard University supervisor, that we could get more help from private funds and business groups and others, but also the federal government can play a role in the lost housing bill, which It was defeated by three votes in the House, it provided only in editions for the construction of university dormitories, it also provided for loans for the construction of classrooms and then I believe that the state has an important role to play in the development of the State University.

I think it's going to require a concentrated attack because we need the best-educated citizenry we can find and I don't think any talented boy or girl should be denied the right to go to college, according to the McClellan committee's investigation. to accomplish something when I was on the McFarland committee, my brother was a member, as well as being on the standing labor committee and I think the committee did accomplish something; brings to light the problem of the infiltration of gangsters into the labor management landscape and the use of unions to profit from these gangsters and the infiltration of businesses by corrupt people who had nothing in common with the labor movement or with the responsible companies we brought to light before the eyes of Kennedy the labor reform project that was written through the eyes of a senator in New York, a Republican and I as a Democrat who had to legislatively carry out the committee's recommendations McCallum passed the Senate by 88 votes to 1 was defeated in the House 198 190 I can assure you that we will start again next January because I believe that responsible legislation is supported by honest workers and administrators.

Elijah. I write you a letter in Washington. Will you answer me? I can assure you that we will. I won't be able to do it for the next few days, but after the election we certainly would be eager to hear from you and me and I really mean that because the more information we get from our people at home, the more we will know how they feel and what the problems are, the better we can represent them in Washington. I hope you not only get a response, but I would also like to hear from you. Can we stop the increase in the cost of living well?

The increase has increased steadily, it stopped in September and there has been a period of increases since then, butit was up three or four percent in the previous seven months. It's difficult in a free society. Well, everyone can know their own address to have full control over the cost of living, but there are several things that can be done first. Can the Federal Reserve Board manage this government's credit supply in a way that restrains inflationary pressures? We can make sure that we don't spend too much on the government, that we don't have deficit financing, which is a stimulus for inflation and higher prices, you can make sure that the prices that are controlled, like natural gas and commodities basics and public services here in a state like Massachusetts, if they are administered fairly and well and in a whole variety of ways, let's do everything we can to attack this. problem that I think is terribly difficult, especially for those people who live on fixed incomes and retirees, to find that their retirement check each month is worth less and less.

I think it is the number one problem and I hope that we can take more effective measures on the coming months and years. If you're a Democrat, why is my boyfriend a Republican? I don't know unless you've convinced him. but in any case I hope that all the citizens of Massachusetts with respect to their party, if they can, will support me and if they cannot, of course, that they will support my opponent. In any case, I hope, as I said before, that they reach the Polls and votes and I am happy to know that in Virginia they say that in this case a Republican supports us because I believe that I have tried to represent all the people of this state in Washington in a way responsible.

The last question in this series is what is it doing right for the fishing industry? The fishing industry has been one of the industries most affected by excess imports and in 1954 in the Senate, Congress approved the so-called Saltonstall Kennedy Act which, in response to both senators from Massachusetts, established that the tax collected on the importation of foreign fish instead of going like before to the Department of Agriculture for the support of perishable vegetables now goes to the fishing industry for research we send a chip to the third albatross that goes out and investigates and how to package fish and how to freeze it better and find new fishing grounds and, in other words, to help the fishing industry develop its resources through research.

Additionally, Senator Saltonstall and I introduced the bill this year that came out of the Senate committee. which I hope will be passed next year, which will be more direct assistance to the fishing industry, will provide revolving funds for the purchase of new vessels, and will provide other protections for the fishing industry that are much needed without a strong fishing industry which we do not have. a strong economy here in the state of Massachusetts if you think our electric bill is too high, the regulation of electricity and the pricing of those products is up to the state commission and I think they are better equipped to deal with that. problem because it doesn't depend on the federal government and I don't really have information and in SF to give you a really intelligent answer how many babies did you kiss in this campaign where I didn't kiss the guests, but death?

I didn't make it, there didn't seem to be much desire in their clutches for death, anyway we saw many mothers' hands, we shook them. I am a high school student, how can I get into politics? Well, it's now. What am I hoping for in twenty if you're going to school today since it's a weekday? But I hope that our boys and girls, even if they are not old enough to vote, will participate in these campaigns like a campaign in this year there will be one in 1960 and I hope that they will go to the headquarters of the party in which they believe.

I will go to the headquarters of several candidates that they like and offer their help in all the work that needs to be done in the campaign. It can be done regardless of how old you are, we have a lady at our headquarters who writes us a card every night at 150 Tremont Street, whose identification is their own and then we have a lot of girls who come from high school and boys who are helping us distribute literature so that, no matter how old you are, you can fulfill your responsibilities as a citizen and I hope that in this campaign and in another campaign follow what your stance is on civil rights, life support legislation to ensure that all however one of our citizens and their children are guaranteed equal rights and I have supported all civil rights legislation in the 12 years I have been in Congress.

We want to make sure that all boys and girls, of any color, of any race or creed, receive equal opportunities to develop their own resources and talents and I believe that the best should be done in a country that is a great country, we do not say that everyone may have the same talent, but they should at least be able to develop. what university they have equally and that is the essence of this system of government and I firmly believe in it and I will continue to work for it in the United States Senate. Do you think we have enough for Social Security?

Well, obviously, our Social Security payments haven't kept up. with the cost of living that we talked about in the last Congress we tried to increase 10% we were not successful when they went up 7% but the cost of living during that same period had gone up almost 8% now Unfortunately, the cost of living will go up again probably in January or February and I'm hopeful we can deal with that issue again. I think the fund is efficiently sound and will certainly provide returns of up to the 10% I mentioned. How is your situation? health well, okay, I had a bad year back in '54 as a result of an injury I suffered in the Navy, but I'm in good health, I appreciate the contrast, maybe I'll do well, can something be done about those plane crashes in New England?

One of the problems with crossing is that we have bad weather on the coast and we have a farm and conditions much worse than those in other parts of the country, where only the CAA puts security facilities of a particular type only when there were 20 thousand flights a year at some of our airports that you invested in and Nantucket has less than that, but we have been working with a CAA in an attempt to get an amendment to that provision to provide that when you have a percentage of flights in a concentrated time period is particularly bad if they will get these facilities where we really need them and we are going to get them do you think we are heading towards Laura?

Well, the issue of war and peace is really up in the air. in the hands of the enemy, the Red Chinese and the Russians, but if we are strong and determined and indicate that we are going to fulfill our commitments, then I believe that peace can be maintained, that is my hope and I believe that the main threat is going to be a indirect subversion rather than direct military action although, as I said, it has to be in the hands of the Red Chinese and the Soviet Union, how many more children do you want to have?

Well, I wish we all could. Have you seen and seen my brothers have six children in seven years? I am hopeful that we will do it. I don't know at what point we tried to try it. I understand that you are a sure bet to win, so why should I bother voting? for you, well, as of today I am not a shoe, I have no brooch and I will not have any votes until the morning of the elections, which is when the poll opens, so I would like to win and I would like to win as far as I can. could.

I think it helps those of us who speak for Massachusetts if people in Washington know that we have the support of the people of our state and I am hopeful that all of you, like I said, before we go vote we need all the people who we can get, we won't have anyone's vote, like I said, when the elections are stopped and people don't vote in the 12 hours that the polls are open, then we can't win, but if you all go and vote, you can make our friends vote and I think we have a good chance of winning and I think it will make it easier for us to speak louder and bigger in the Senate because people realize that the people of Massachusetts have been supportive of me, so I guess These are all the questions we have time for.

I'm so grateful for inviting Tom Russ this morning and taking the coffee hours that we will be sending to many more young people. people in their homes this week when it could be a magazine or actually a tabloid that has some of the things we've done. I hope you have the opportunity to greet them and I want to thank my mother and all my sisters for coming once again to help me in a campaign and now I would like them to come to the media, which I hope God has more roots, but if I can't paint jobs here in the future, I'm going to Caroline TLC.

It's the first time she's appeared on that television, but I hope to buy the next campaign. She will be seven years old. We can put it to work more actively. We want to thank you again for coming. She is only the youngest member. our family and I am grateful to her and my wife Jackie and all my sisters. I've told my mother, especially because she said that she started campaigning for my grandfather Fitzgerald and when he was mayor in 1980 and that she's been working. for your father my father my grandfather or my father affirms me for the last half century so we are very grateful and we count on his help and we are lucky to have Caroline who is now 11 months old and we will be heroes November 28th Election Missing just one week until next Tuesday.

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