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Thomas Paine Podcast

Part 3 -- Paine Political Classics: Robert F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan Debate & Show Modern America What Civilized Politics Was All About

Thomas Paine Podcast

mike moore

Daily News, Philosophy, News, Society & Culture, Politics

4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Part 3 -- Paine Political Classics: Robert F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan Debate & Show Modern America What Civilized Politics Was All About

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0:00.0

Now, the lovely blonde girl from England.

0:07.0

I'd like to change the subject to civil rights.

0:11.0

In England, there is a growing movement to legislation against racial discrimination.

0:16.0

I believe that many states have the experience of this legislation.

0:20.0

Would both candidates like to comment on this and perhaps other countries may learn from America's experience?

0:30.0

Senator Kennedy, your attorney, John Rowe, on the civil rights legislation was in a crucial phase?

0:35.0

Well, I'm not familiar with the exact kind of legislation being proposed within your own country.

0:41.0

We passed some major bills in 1964, 1965, 1966, which gave some guarantees to individuals in the field of education,

0:52.0

in the field of using public accommodations such as hotels and restaurants, and in the field of job discrimination.

0:57.0

Some of the legislation has been more effective than other parts of it, but there was an effort by the United States to try to deal with the problem, not completely successfully,

1:05.0

but at least we may start to make the effort.

1:07.0

If you want to talk about some particular piece of legislation, I think it was extremely important that we passed the legislation.

1:13.0

I think it was extremely important that we have recognized the problem and began to deal with it, but I would say to you quite frankly,

1:20.0

by no means made this very difficult problem that affects the United States disappear, and we're going to have a lot of problems,

1:28.0

including some of the disorders that have happened in the past over the period of the last six years,

1:36.0

we're going to continue to have those within our own country for some years to come.

1:40.0

We're dealing with a heritage of 150 years.

1:43.0

We've been in just two of our minority groups, particularly the Negroes, but as well as some other groups, the Mexican Americans, the Indians,

1:51.0

and we've just begun to recognize it, and now we're starting to deal with it, and I think we're going to have to continue to deal with it in the form of legislative action,

2:00.0

as well as personal activity on the part of all of us.

2:04.0

Governor Reagan, what do you think as a governor of a great state of the effectiveness of American civil rights legislation?

2:13.0

Well, I think with all of the disorders we've lost sight of some of the progress that has been made.

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