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News conference with Massachusetts Attorney General Edward Brooke and Senator Jacob Javits
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News conference with Massachusetts Attorney General Edward Brooke and Senator Jacob Javits
14.52 Attorney General Edward Brooke (R - Massachusetts). In Massachusetts today we ve seen the distinguished senior Senator from the great state of New York, the Honorable Jacob Javits, Senator Javits. Senator Jacob Javits (R - New York). Well I ve come up in the interest of Ed Brooke in order to speak at a fundraising luncheon which he s just had. And my reason for being here, obviously, is not to have any particularly position in the Massachusetts election - we are having a little problem of that kind, from Massachusetts in New York - but rather to testify as a witness, as it were, to the importance of the attorney general of Massachusetts to the position of moderates in the Republican Party. I communicated that to those that attended the luncheon and I think it is a cause which commends itself to people of all parties, Democrats, and Independents, as well as Republicans, because today the stability of the two party system is at issue. And I think it s very important for the American people to always have a free choice between the two parties, both of which, should be within the general accepted consensus of the country. And I hope very much that Ed will be permitted by the people of Massachusetts to maintain his leadership position in the party and grow in that position, which great opportunity will of course be given to him in a measurable way and he ll be of much helped in it if he s reelected as attorney general of the state.
News conference with Massachusetts Attorney General Edward Brooke and Senator Jacob Javits
16.24 Reporter. Senator you mentioned the problem in New York State as a result of a former Massachusetts resident. Can you give us your appraisal of the conflict between Senator Keating and Robert Kennedy? Has it caused a weakness of the Democratic Party in New York State? Senator Jacob Javits (R - New York). I wouldn t say that. I think many New Yorkers looking over the field of Democrats in New York wonder why they couldn t come up with somebody right in the state. And that s a problem which they have to answer, not we. I think it s the duty of every political party to present the best it s got. Therefore, we must assume in order to get what they consider the best we go outside the state of New York.
News conference with Massachusetts Attorney General Edward Brooke and Senator Jacob Javits
17.05 Reporter. Senator Javits, while you admit you have an important problem in New York; do you feel that a state candidate, such as Attorney General Brooke here in Massachusetts, may have a problem also since Mr. Brooke has already stated he doesn t find Mr. Goldwater s philosophy compatible with his? Senator Jacob Javits (R - New York). I think that the Attorney General will have to account to the people of the state as to why he feels that way. I can only tell that I have withheld my support from the national ticket of my party for reasons which are not Republican Party reasons. I ve said before and I say again the moderate cause that I represented in San Francisco got licked in San Francisco. So even if I differed in the Presidential candidate and on some issue or party policy, some issue of legislation which represented a party issue or labor issue or something like that, that wouldn t be the reason for my withholding of support. But my differences were on the security of the nation with respect to control of the nuclear weapon. They re on the basis of extremism and the attitude toward extremism. They are on the basis of an effort to, what I considered to be an unwise effort, to fail to emphasis the critical importance of the civil rights issue to my party, as the party of Lincoln. An implicit effort to utilize or perhaps to get the benefit of some resentment of the Civil Rights act of 1964. And it was on those biases that I felt I had to withhold my support. This is my accounting, this is my people. The Attorney General of the state will have to account his way to his people and they would have to be satisfied and that of applies primarily to Republicans. And even if they don t agree with him, and many won t, as many don t agree with me, they at least respect the sincerity and the honor of my position and the fact that I am a good Republican and believe in my party, as indeed I do. And therefore if I am a candidate I am entitled to support sport nonetheless. That is your attorney general s problem and as far as I know he is meeting it very admirably.
News conference with Massachusetts Attorney General Edward Brooke and Senator Jacob Javits
19.33 Reporter. Senator does this withholdings mean you will not vote for President Johnson? Senator Jacob Javits (R - New York). It does not. I ve said that before and I said I will make an announcement on the question of my voting sometime well in advance of the election. The support factor is a matter of advocacy. In other words, am I going to go out and advocate the candidacy of the head of my ticket? And that I said I could not do and I cannot do it. And nothing that has happened since the nomination has changed my view on that.
News conference with Massachusetts Attorney General Edward Brooke and Senator Jacob Javits
20.05 Reporter. Senator because many Republicans, it seems, cannot embrace the philosophy of Barry Goldwater, there is some feeling now that many may stay home and not vote at all. Do you think this will harm the Republican cause? Senator Jacob Javits (R - New York). I believe this is a very important election. I do not believe that many Republicans will stay home and not vote at all. I realize nowadays that this is a great issue for the nation. Now this doesn t mean that even a 90% vote. I feel very badly to say that in our country even a two thirds vote is considered very good. I hope very much that we will have many more people in percentage out to the polls than not. Perhaps some Republicans will stay home; perhaps some Democrats will stay home. I don t think that this will be a major factor either way. And I hope very much that the overwhelming majority of voters will come out. And I d like to see great improvement in the percentage in a Presidential year, in the interest of the country.
THE AFRICANS: Tools of Exploitation
The Africans: Tools of Exploitation. Regards the deliberate and subtle methods of economic exploitation in Africa in post-colonial times. Edited unmixed program originally shot on film.
THE AFRICANS: Tools of Exploitation
TLS/MSs of trucks hauling people and people hitching rides in an unidentified African town. Heavy traffic.
THE AFRICANS: Tools of Exploitation
Traveling shot from a car, LSs of modern high-rises and buildings in Lagos, Nigeria.
THE AFRICANS: Tools of Exploitation
Host Ali Mazrui in a car.
THE AFRICANS: Tools of Exploitation
MS/CUs of people in Lagos, Nigeria streets, some pushing carts, some riding in cars or on motorcycles. Panning MS of billboard advertising beer.
THE AFRICANS: Tools of Exploitation
Modern skyscraper. Men near a fountain in an urban setting. MS/CUs of storefronts pitching American & European brands of clothing & services (Adidas, Fila, AMEX, Lacoste, etc). MS young black woman in Western clothing and sunglasses. CUs women's shoes & other goods in store windows.
THE AFRICANS: Tools of Exploitation
Panning LS Western-like skyline of Lagos, Nigeria, pan over to miles of slums.
THE AFRICANS: Tools of Exploitation
Host Ali Mazrui speaking to camera.
THE AFRICANS: Tools of Exploitation
MCU of a doorknob that falls off in the hand of host Ali Mazrui. MS Mr. Mazrui, in silhouette, walking halls of a hotel in West Africa; VO points to the way that Africans have only gained superficial modes of consumption in exchange with the West, but have not acquired [or been allowed to acquire] western know-how. Mr. Mazrui illustrates how much of the luxury of this hotel is a sham (broken radio and television and no hot water).
THE AFRICANS: Tools of Exploitation
The Africans: Tools of Exploitation. Regards the deliberate and subtle methods of economic exploitation in Africa in post-colonial times. Edited unmixed program originally shot on film.
THE AFRICANS: Tools of Exploitation
Cut to CU burning embers of fire; MSs of an African village where a man (and child) molds a cast for bronze; CUs sculpture bust being assembled, clay being placed on; MS of a hand-operated copper smelter. (art, statue)
THE AFRICANS: Tools of Exploitation
DO NOT USE: CUs of African bronze busts in museum.
THE AFRICANS: Tools of Exploitation
The Africans: Tools of Exploitation. Regards the deliberate and subtle methods of economic exploitation in Africa in post-colonial times. Edited unmixed program originally shot on film.
THE AFRICANS: Tools of Exploitation
EST shots of an Ivory Coast village. LSs old fortresses used in Slave trade.
THE AFRICANS: Tools of Exploitation
MS/CUs Africans in an open air market; MS rusted European cannons. CU of the face of a small child.
THE AFRICANS: Tools of Exploitation
DO NOT USE: Photograph of African boy on slave market.
THE AFRICANS: Tools of Exploitation
MSs of a cell used to hold slaves before the Atlantic passage.