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MALCOLM X: MING: MALCOLM X: Well maybe not be you but by these others. I might disagree with you without regarding you as a criminal. wee ee! ; . ote ES poe he Here's what it points eet concerning the administration thaé@ supposed to be for the civil rights bill. It speaks of nov the administration finds itself embarrassed because the House == Judiciary Committee has approved a civil rights bill the White House considers too strong for any realistic change of passage. Attorney General KENNEDY has gone before the full committee to urge that some of the strengthening provisions be knocked out in the interest of obtaining more support from middle of the road Republicans and Democrats. But its concessions to political expediency contrasts sharpely to the administration's previously emphasis on the privacy of the moral issue im the national atruggle for equality for every American. The last paragraph says this, next to the last. Retreat before the battle is the worse way to block the campaign of Soutbern Democrats to scuttle any neaningfal eivil . rights legislation. There was no place for partisanship in the field for a sound civil rights bill but to seek unity through an approach based on the lowest common denominator of consensus harms the bill's enenies more than it does its friends. In the last paragraph it says in the appeal to conscience, the President in his address to the nation a few days before bis eivil rights message, the President declared that this country have all its hopes and all its (inaudible) “will not be fully free until all of its citizens are free", That is the yardstick that ought to guide the Congress in the debate now nearing a climax in the House Judiciary Committee. Before we were cut off by that commercial so rudely we did emphasize MALCOLM that we would get a very strong civil Fights bill which is now pending and as the Senator says he has hopes that it eventually, within two months, will come to some (inaudible). - 33 -