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| IP 100-17576 4 21 "no tanks. We like .. wh. . gave them a whole a lecture about what they got around the country. ° And like how they were wry unprepared to deal with us. Two hippies. That's true. "You wanta come up and say it? Becase I don't think... Here. "From 'Time' magazine. (Unimown member of audience asks unintelligible question of HOFFMAN ) UNKNOW: ". . 'Timet magazine stated that your organization . . said that Senator Robert Kennedy . . seek the nomination... HOFFMAN: “Well, that was in a review of my book. It was totally inaccurate. They had that I was from the Bronx and I was a flower child, didn't believe in violence and all the other stuff. . No. Kennedy. No. No. There's nobody that they can put up. No. What I said in the book was that when we started planning for Chicago in December, when Lyndon Johnson was in, end... there was still bombing in North Vietnam, that at that point we felt that there might be... . might be close to a quarter of a million people that would come to Chicago. And then there was a series of things that happened. Johnson's withdrawal and then. .. uh. . . Eugene McCarthy .. . wait a second. And then when Bobby Kennedy answered the race, Bobby Kennedy had a very theatrical approach. See. And when long-haired kids started coming up to us and started saying that { they thought Kennedy turned on. You know, that he was ' like doing a whole charismatic thing there and was going to grab that . . grab the people and let. . They aren't going to come to Chicago for the same reason. In fact, we planned to call it off, md then. . then Sirhan came on and did hia thing and then it was - « the ball game was a whole different thing and people wanted right away to go to Chicago. They felt that the’ last hope in changing the system had been shattered. ~36 -