KTLA News: "Senator Robert F. Kennedy responds to reporters in Los Angeles" (1966)

[Reporter] Could we have a couple of words with you, sir? [Reporter] If you move over here, I think we can all get in. [Reporter] Yeah, that's, [Man] We're all all right? [Reporter] No, move your head. [Reporter] Senator, what brings you to, ah, Los Angeles? [Robert Kennedy] Well, I'm taking my, ah, children to Disneyland. A couple of them children. [Kennedy] And then I'm meeting with some people out here in connection with civil rights and in connection with the, ah, John F. Kennedy Library. [Reporter] Where are you coming from, sir? [Kennedy] I came from, ah, Sun Valley, where I was with my family. [Reporter] How's the skiing? [Kennedy] It was marvelous. We had a great time. [Reporter] What will the nature of the civil rights discussion be, Senator? [Kennedy] Oh, it's just informal, and I'm just meeting and talking with some people about, ah, [Kennedy] some of the problems that can exist, we expect to exist, over the next few years. [Reporter] Senator, would you comment on the subway situation in New York City? [Kennedy] I think I'll wait until I return to New York. [Reporter] Well, do you have any impression at all about Mayor Lindsay's handling of the situation there? [Kennedy] I'll wait for any comment on that until I return to New York. [Reporter] If, ah, the strike should drag on for some time, do you think the government would be justified in stepping in? [Kennedy] Okay, I think I'll wait until I return to New York State. [KTLA Reporter] Senator, if we have peace in Vietnam, [Reporter] as it looks as though there may be a chance possibility. What will be the effects on the economy as you see it? [Kennedy] Well, I think that my judgment is, that's still some time off. I don't think that that's a, [Kennedy] immediate prospect. I would hope it would be, but I'm afraid that that's still some time off. [Reporter] Senator, ah, are you as hopeful as some are that the current peace efforts will produce, [Reporter] ah, results at the situation in Vietnam will be brought to the bargaining table at this time. [Kennedy] I think that's going to be very difficult to achieve, but I, [Kennedy] I commend President Johnson, and the determined effort that he is making to try to find a peaceful solution. I think it's, [Kennedy] the efforts that have been made in the last week make it clear to our own people as well as to the people around the world, [Kennedy] that we are interested in finding a peaceful solution to Vietnam. [Kennedy] I think that that's vital, no matter what the turn of events might be in the next few months. [Reporter] Is there any chance that you might play an official or unofficial role in bringing this to an end, [?] [Reporter] Senator, on the question of Vietnam, there's been considerable feeling that Congress has abdicated its responsibility to debate the question. [Reporter] Do you think that in this new session of Congress, there will be such a debate? [Kennedy] I don't, [Reporter] Do you think there needs to be one? [Kennedy] I don't know. I have said before, that I think first that we should make this major kind of effort to find a peaceful solution. [Kennedy] And I think that President Johnson's [Kennedy] has indicated that, ah, that's going to be the policy of the United States government. [Kennedy] If, our commitment, is going to increase in Vietnam. Either in areas that are going to be attacked, or, [Kennedy] or in, ah, larger numbers of troops then have, ah, been committed, ah, in the past, [Kennedy] then, I think that that should be discussed with Congress as it has been discussed before by President Johnson. [Reporter] Would you be inclined to oppose further escalation of the war? [Kennedy] I'd be, I would want to hear all of the facts as I have said before. [Reporter] Senator Kennedy, what do you foresee in the year 1966 and any new directions in the field of civil rights? [Kennedy] Well, I think that we're going to have to as, as John McCone's report [Kennedy] indicated in Watts. I think that we should have the same kind of a report and, [Kennedy] study made by similar groups in every major metropolitan area in the United States. [Kennedy] And, secondly that, ah, as that, ah, report, ah, recommended, I think that we need a, [Kennedy] major program, [Kennedy] to, ah, deal with these kinds of problems in our urban areas, particularly in the north. [Reporter] Senator, would you tell us, ah, who's in your party, who has come down from the ski trip with you? [Kennedy] Oh, my daughter Cathleen and, ah, one of her friends. All right. [Reporter] Senator, can you tell us with whom you've been meeting while you are here? [Kennedy] No, I cannot. [Reporter] Can you tell us how long? [Kennedy] I'll be here a couple of days. [Reporter] The actor, Ronald Reagan, has decided to run for Governor in California. [Kennedy] I'm looking forward to hearing his televised news conference tonight. [Reporters] Thank you very much. [Kennedy] Thank you. [Crowd noise] [Reporter] Tell us a few [?] about strike talks. [Kennedy] I'd have to really know. I just read about it in the newspaper today. [Kennedy] And I'd like to really know a little bit more about it. I think they, that obviously it's a matter that, ah, has to be a matter of concern. [Kennedy] Well, thank you. [Reporter] Thank you, sir. [Crowd noise] [Kennedy] All right. [Man] The JFK library is, [Kennedy] Oh, it's not here.