KTLA News: "Robert F. Kennedy press conference and luncheon in Los Angeles" (1964)

[Robert Kennedy] Very pleased to be here. Pleased to have a opportunity to see and talk to all of you. We want to do the best possible job with it, make it unique. Make it the best that we can possibly do and so your effort and your interest really is greatly appreciated. We've had a really a very remarkable response around the country. Many young people and from others as well in all parts of the United States. We've had some real sacrifices that have been made by people in order to contribute. There was a uh... suggestion made in Parade Magazine... [Crowd noise] Well I'm happy for Pierre, I think he'd make a fine candidate ...and uh... I think he'd make an outstanding Senator. [Reporter] Venture to forecast victory in November? I think he'll win...but I think that all campaigns are always difficult. [Reporter] Have you decided, sir, that you will definitely not be a vice presidential candidate? I haven't decided, I really, I just haven't decided what I'm going to do in the future. [Reporter] Mr. Kennedy, uh...could you tell us with what Democratic leaders you've met this morning? Well, I met everybody at the luncheon if you can get the list of those who are at the luncheon I met everybody there. [Reporter] Did anything you discuss there have any bearing on what political decisions you might...? No, they did not. [Reporter] Mr. Kennedy, you may have been quoted correctly or erroneously, but...uh... someone said that you were tired of facing people. [Reporter] How do you [unintelligible] don't continue in government if you don't... if you have any other thoughts? Any other... No. Well, yes. I've given thoughts... you mean "what else I could do?" Yes, I have. Well I might like to uh... be associated with a university... ...uh... teaching, maybe. Going to school perhaps. I don't know. That's one area. Newspaper business. [Reporters and guests chuckling] I might do some writing. [Reporter] What's your reaction to the...uh... Communist Party associated with the Supreme Court ...and not refusing to renew [?]... [Reporter] Have you heard about that? No, I haven't. [Reporter] Forget it, then. Thank you. [Reporter] Mr. Kennedy, earlier I asked you a question and we had a mechanical failure and I would like to ask your indulgence and pursue it again. If there is a decision in Atlantic City that you would be the best qualified, would you be responsive to that sort of a draft? I just don't know what my future will be. I'm going to decide that sometime in the future but I haven't decided that yet [Reporter] Would that have considerable bearing on your plan making? Well, I just don't know what I'm going to do and I just have to leave it like that. I just don't know what I'll do. [Reporter] Mr. Kennedy, as the Justice Department what is the communist menace today? Uh... uh...increasing?...uh... Didn't understand what Senator Goldwater stands for. Now you know, that's... They're having so much difficulty I don't... in that party, I don't want to add to it. [Laughter] [Reporter] How do you see, how do you see that race shaping up, sir? Excuse me? [Reporter] How do you see that race ending up... with Senator Goldwater getting the nomination? That's the way it appears [Reporter] Mr. Attorney General, we've heard a great deal of talk In Los Angeles for the last two or three years about the possibility of Chief of Police, William H. Parker, here being considered... as a possible successor to J. Edgar Hoover when he steps down. [Reporter] Is there any truth to that? I haven't heard that. I don't know what's... Well, I think as he stated so many occasions he represents the Republican point of view and the mainstream of the Republican Party and, and what they believe in... and I just think it'll be an interesting campaign which, uh... I think the President Johnson's looking forward to it. [Reporter] Mr. Kennedy, there seems to be some opinion that Senator Goldwater would run strong in the South because of his stand on civil rights. Do you have any judgements on that? I don't think that's true. Uh... I think that it'll have some effect, but I think that President Johnson's very popular in the South as he is in other parts of the country. Alright? Will you write something about the library, please? [Laughter] [Reporter] What library?