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Eugene Mccarthy — Part 5
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YA supe nen ee wane
. wt y By Davia S. Reader
and William Chapman
Wrashingian Dost Sinff Writers
SAN PR, opancsscOIiune 1
—Sens, Eusone rthy
and RoBarre, Aennedy join-
edina polite one-hour tele-
vision Giscussion tonight that
illuminate in much more of
their areas of Sgreement
» Unan the differences between
¢shem.
i The eagerly awaited cone
frontation ef the uvo Deme-
cratic pe resin. eal can-
didaies pr ad ucec no re al
ehashes ana, in rae wiew of
the newsmen who watched,
ho ciesr-cut wecsony,
man’s dissavoomont
sane policies of the
Aadminisiration on
apha-
acims aud an
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reves American bargain
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7.
Mennecy accused MeCar-
thy of sdavocoting a “i orced:
coalition cover av
gon—biut lieCarthy
wes Glin suize
that the
wirrosting
US. Govecscnent should not
yejech & couliticn regime, 2s
Kennedy himisely had said.
"Ades a discussion that
ranged m Victnam to
iiscal poucy io the provlems,
of whe ghetto and crime,:
man was invited to:
is claim to the Presic
ikenneey, responding first,’
Ciied his work on problems
of pence, ci racial relations
and of law enforcement as
saey General and chict
or Ay, * resiGer, t. Joon ao Ps
the...
that whas ever
statement
naoovens i¢
ViOW.
‘Reynolds said
we we
shawdown with, Me-
hy, “Tam going io dedi
cate myself to
ment of my country and its
people.”
McCarthy offered his 20
years in Congress—i
ing service on what
called “every critical
mivee? — as an offset to
Kennedy's Executive Branch
experienee, Then he
Terred vo atts pa tonooving ro:e
yee
"as the first Demecrai re)
challenge President Johnson
“and the foreign policy of the
Administration in this year’s
“campaign. .
“I think this year I saw
‘what the country needs,”
MeCarthy said, “and there
is something to be said cor
a President who can see in
acyance what the count’s
needs, especially when iat
is in the area of good and
justi ce.”
Aller the confrontation
ronded ang the candidates
were Icaving the San Fran-
cisco television studio, Me-
Carthy described the en.
counter as, ‘kind of a no-
decision bout With three
yeferees and 16-ounce
gloves.”
Asked ii he wanted a re-
match, McCarthy said, “No,
we'd get tired of each
‘other.”
Kennedy said only that
the discussion provided “an’
opportunity to talk «about
some things that concerned
me.”
The
three
ing Co. correspondents *
questioning each candidate
in turn. Eaen candidate wes
permitted to comment on
his opponeni’s answe
ABC Correspondent Frank
the <sormat
qvas worked out during con-
sultations with reprosenta-
format consisted of
tives of both candidates...
MecCarthy’s national eam-
the beticr-.
includ:
he.
come!
helping Negras in the
a, “maximum of
exchange.” oo
‘tne ABC network carried
the show to 183 iclevision
Stations and 825 radio sta-
tions,
Occasionally, McCarthy
and Kennedy proke away
from tne prescribed format
to speak direetly to each
ovher,
: in one such exchange;
"Xennedy complained that a
AicCarthy newspaper aéver-
‘edioa
direct
tisement — which asseréed’
that . he (Kennedy) bore
some responsibility for the
intervention in Vietnam—- 7
wwes a “distartion, of the
record.” 7
MeCarthy said he had
ordered the ad canceled. ‘
think you (Kennedy) had _
some reason to be” upset,
he said. ‘
The two men also expre
te
SOQ
difloring emphases on Whether
housing
and
be
job programs
should concentrated on
or on moving thei closer to
ale
paere
school and job opportuni-
ties at the suburbs.
MeCarthy said ‘that
grams aimed only at improv-
ing
“We need to get a distribution Sunday N
of tite races throughout ouryey y
shotio, result in a
apartheid.
ihe
“pracual
society.”
face the fact that a lot of these The New Leader ———_______.
people are there and we have The Wall Street Journal
to do something
American Broadcast- } there.”
At another point, Kenn iedy People’ s World
refused to join McCarthy in
Phe | latter's insistenea that FBI pate
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Kennedy replied: “I’m all in
the ghetto.”
But he said that “we have to:
for them
irector J. Edgar Hoover and
cret etary of State Dean Rusk
moved irom their posi.
tions. -: ao *
Kenn nedy si said. he aid not j
antro “deal in_personali-
=
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“ties.” However, he said tWat” |
spocns {9 Bf 1 n director, Bisir Clark,”
Tuesday's h A ah tee 196 he had preforved_a fare
that would have provide.
he disagreed so much with
Rusk's policies that if he
were President, “I doubt
very anuch, he (Rus) would
want to remain? ef eee ta
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ork Post
The New York Times
favor of moving people out of The Sun (Baltimore)
The Washingion Daily News
pro-The Evening Star (Washington)
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