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18 532 100 snappers. Mhm Senator Smathers The nation is watching the events that are transpiring in Birmingham, Nashville and certain other countries. Well, a certain other second. Great. Do you think the repercussions will be around the country? Well, I hope that the repercussions are not catastrophic, but they could well be this, of course, a highly explosive, very dangerous situation charged with emotion and fear.

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I had the privilege of hearing both the president and the attorney general very recently talk about this matter to the members of the Senate in a sessions sort of unofficial, which say, importune the members of the Senate to keep their collars on and their hats on and see if they could not keep their mouth shut for the time being so that the local people could work it out.

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Apparently, as a matter had been solved in Birmingham to most everyone satisfaction into at 2:30 a.m. On Sunday morning when the governor apparently sent in some state troopers and they brought some outside people with them, and it was the outside people who we're the ones who got this trouble started, which resulted of course in the bombings and burnings and shootings and all the rest.

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There's a very dangerous situation and one that I think we should go slow on. And in an effort to try to let local people realize that they must take some steps to conciliate the differences and settle it like civilized human beings. Because if we don't, of course, it has bad repercussions all over.

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Not here only in the United States, but throughout the world. Thinking of differences, Senator, there seemed to be a few articles being currently published, which indicate that Castro would now like to make up, so to speak, with the United States. Can we take any of those things of a serious vein?

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Well, I would hope not. I don't believe that's true. I read some of those articles, and this has, of course, been a great fear and concern on my part that the day might come when Castro and communism had been so long in Cuba that it would be the attitude of certain people that, well, we just might as well accept it.

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But I don't think we can do that. And I don't think the American people want to do that. And I don't believe this government wants to do it, actually, because I think everyone recognizes that the Alliance for Progress will never work until communism is out of Cuba because, uh, their private capital will not help the Alliance for Progress and unique private capital in Central and South America to supplement the Alliance for Progress.

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And people are not going to put money into that area of the world. As long as the prospect of karma isn't taking it over further than that, Cuba will remain as a fountainhead of subversion and propaganda, and we should get rid of it. That is, we should get rid of the communism in Cuba, and I don't believe any reproachment is actually going to be made.

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I think Castro would like for us to make one, but I'm satisfied this government will not do that. They will continue to keep on pressure, and I hope ever increasing pressure in that very area of the Caribbean. Of course, have this Haitian Dominican facing this. It's at the moment, calmed down somewhat.

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There have been some charges that the Communists are beginning to get a foothold in Haiti, and I'm wondering if you had any solution as to trying to allay that situation in some way or other? Well, not exactly. I think it's a very dangerous situation. I don't believe there's any justification for the Dominicans to suddenly attack Haiti just because they don't like the government.

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But I do agree that the Haitian government is not a desired government. It's not the kind of conducive to improve conditions of the people. But I do believe what this lends itself, the situation to my argument, which have long advocated that we ought to have and Latin American police force.

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There's no point in our keeping the carrier down there and lots of troops headed to go in and stop the fight. Actually, it's everybody in this areas fight, and we should go forward with building up a South American Central American police force, which could do such a worked as to stop this conflict, For example, between Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

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Mhm. Thank you very much, Bob Core. I appreciate you asking these question. Your time is up. Thank you very much. Ladies and gentlemen, for looking at on another subject the senator's matters. One which is a particular interest to many people in Florida. You, as chairman of the Senate Special Committee on Aging, I understand, have called several organizational meetings in this past week.

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Now, how is the committee shaping up so far? Well, the Committee on Aging, which is shaping up very well we've got It's quite a large committee, as you know, with 14 Democratic members and seven Republican members, very distinguished members. However, Wayne Morris is the ranking member on the Democratic side.

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Joe Clark, Pat McNamara. On the Republican side, we have ever Dirksen and by Goldwater and several others. It's a little bit difficult to sometimes get these people together on anything, even the selection of the Who ought to be chairman and who should make up the subcommittee's.

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But in any event, we have appointed subcommittees at our last meeting or one on health, which will look into the general overall problem of health again. And undoubtedly there will be a lot of discussion about the virtue of the King Anderson Bill, which is the Specials bill, which is the direct of marriage.

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Federal assistance in providing medical case, also got a subcommittee on housing, which I think will do a very constructive work. There's a lot being done in that field of housing for the elderly. We then have another subcommittee on a federal, state and local activity in community services because there's a great feeling that much more could be done in local communities to provide entertainment to provide occupation for elderly citizens who were today being ignored.

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And after all, the final solution to the problem of old people is not going to be realized actually, in the federal government, except insofar as the federal government helps in financing, it's got to be done in local communities and sort of the family level. We're also going to have a another subcommittee, which will be headed up by Senator Williams of New Jersey on frauds and misrepresentations affecting the elderly.

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And, uh, it's regretful that there are so many people who go out and take advantage of our elderly citizens not only with respect to selling them lots which don't exist, or lots which are underwater houses which are not good houses in any sense, but also and particularly in the matter of medicines and drugs, which are totally and completely ineffective.

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It seems to me that there's too many people who prey on our elderly citizens, and we're going to have a committee to look into that. I'm satisfied that throughout this year and next year, the duration of this Congress, we're going to look into many matters and develop many useful facts, which will help improve the lot of our senior citizens Of some 17.5 million that we have in the United States today.

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There's another segment of our economy in Florida in particular, Senator, that I understand that we're going to do a little improvement for at least indications with that. And I'm speaking particularly of the enlisted men or stations throughout the state, including the offices, of course, because shortly there will be a military pay raise bill come before the Senate, and I'd like to know what your stand is going to be on that Well, frankly, I'm going to be generally for the bill.

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I know that we don't like to increase through the size of our obligations, but on the other hand, we must preserve our armed services because that is our security. Those are the people who defend us in time of war, and we must keep people in the service.

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I heard a man, Senator Keating, as a matter of fact, say, on the floor of the Senate, I think it was yesterday or the day before that. Actually, the pay of a private in the service today is so low if he belongs to the United States Army, that he quality can qualify for unemployment insurance in New York.

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So this is not a very bright commentary on what we're doing for our soldiers. And of course, they do rendered great service. And I think that we're going to have to if we're going to keep qualified people, which we do need to keep in the service, we're going to have to give increased their salaries a final question which will deal directly with you and your colleagues.

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We've had an indication that there may be a bill shortly. There will limit the funds that certain members of Congress are all members of Congress might use from a standpoint of counterpart funds. When they take these so called junk, it's that the press is always talking about what is your stand on that mission?

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Well, I'm going to vote for the House bill to limit it I would not want to see. Actually, the congressmen and the senators stop making these trips. I don't think any businessman who has a business, whether it's in Oklahoma or in France, that he would have a business and run a business without seeing how it's run.

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I think that it's important that the congressmen and senators do travel around and see these areas, but at the same time, I don't think there should be any abuse of these counterpart funds. And unfortunately, some of you always do so. Therefore, I will support a measure which puts them on a regular per diem, as would any other executive branch of the government.

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I see that our time is up. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for listening in. I hope you'll tune in again at this same time next week.