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he won take 1. 20 to 43. Senator Smell. Look at me that here in your nation's capital is Senator George Smathers reporting to the people of Florida. This takes the form of an informal discussion. Let's join the discussion. Okay, Senators matters. You were quite close to Adelaide Stevenson, particularly when he was in Florida and 52 56.

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I wonder if you might give me a few thoughts on his effect on this country in the world. Well, I thought he was a great man, and I'm sure that he was a great spokesman for freedom throughout the world. He was an outstanding governor of his state of Illinois.

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I doubt if we ever had a more eloquent, articulate man to represent us in the United Nations. And Adlai Stevenson. He's the kind of man that when he's gone, obviously he will be greatly missed. But of course, we all will honor him in memory. Senator, Speaking of another prominent person, Arthur Goldberg was secretary of Labor.

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You had a lot of contacts with him at that time. Then he went to the Supreme Court, and I understand now that Senator Johnson has appointed him as ambassador to replace Mr Stevenson. Yes, President Johnson has asked him to be our United Nations spokesman and representative and ambassador, and I think that it's a very excellent choice.

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Uhh. I knew many secretaries of labor, and I'm very frank to say that when Arthur Goldberg came in, I had the feeling that he probably would be less friendly to attitudes and positions which I take and Senator Holland takes and most any previous secretary of labor.

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But strangely enough, I found Arthur Goldberg to be one of the most able men I've ever been privileged to know. One of the most reasonable men. We had a lot of labor problems of small labor problems in our state, and particularly with respect to minimum wage and things of that character.

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And I always found Arthur Goldberg, one of the most reasonable, open minded, fair minded men that I've ever been privileged to know. I think he'll make an excellent spokesman for the free world, and certainly for the United States. At the United Nations. You mentioned Labour Senator, How about this?

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14 b this repeal of the right to work while you're getting much mail on that Yes, we get a good deal of mail on that both ways. Of course, Labor is very anxious to have it repealed. I tell them, as I tell other people in my state, that I voted for the half hearted built in 1947 when I was a member of the Congress.

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I voted for the right to work law or that provision which would allow a state to have the right to work law and I proposed to continue that position. Now, of course, I know it makes some of my labor friends very unhappy, but my contention is that this is in the Florida Constitution.

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It has been put there by a majority vote, and I believe in a majority in this democracy, when a majority of Floridians who believe that it should be out of the Constitution, why then I will go along with that. But until the majority of Floridians take that position, I expect to maintain my early position, which is supported.

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Senator, you voted for this GI bill and extension of it, which gives the benefits to our current soldiers who are fighting under duress and strain. It passed the Senate this last week. What's going to happen in the house? I hear. So we don't know. We don't know Congressman Tyg, who is the chairman of Veterans Affairs Committee in the House.

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He stopped it last a year, and he stopped it in years gone by. I think, however, that this year, because of the rather extreme conditions under which our boys are now operating in Vietnam, I believe that we should have a GI Bill of rights provisions for them, certainly there in just as much danger and under just as much harassment as where the boys in Korea and even the boys in World War Two.

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So I think the time has come now to make these privileges available to these young men who are sacrificing and offering their lives in Vietnam. I think that it'll probably pass. Your former committee is investigating this Dominican situation. What do you hear about that investigation? Well, I think it's eminently clear that now, after investigation of what did happen in Santa Domingo that had President Johnson not sent the troops in, as he did the Marines and the paratroopers as promptly as he did, and his greater numbers as he did that Santa Domingo would have now been totally in the hands of the Communist.

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So it was only because of the prompt action of the president that today Santa Domingo is still listed as a free world nation. Thank you very much, Senator George Smathers. I'll return you now to your station announcer. Oh, he's one of those little entrepreneurs. Seem to take one spot.

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Think, Alice. I wish to join with many thousands in congratulating Will Metco Enterprises on its 40th anniversary. It has been a great company rendering great service to the people of South Florida. We wish for them a very prosperous and happy future. What have criticized him from a personal standpoint, and, uh, they've showed him with a horse whipped and things like that you're quite close to you know him very well.

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Are these things well founded or is just a story? Well, of course, we have freedom of the press in this country, and the Supreme Court has ruled that any writer can write anything he wants about any public official under any conditions. It violates no law. It invades no privacy.

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It's perfectly legal. The only thing that they can't do is knowingly print something untrue with a malicious purpose, and it's hard to find anybody who would admit to that. So under our system, they can write anything they want. I think that as far as I personally am concerned, I think much of it is based on their own imagination.

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I think much of it is unfair. I think some of it, of course you'd have to say is true. But as we read these things, the only thing that I would always try to remind people is to remember when they read an article they ought to remember that's written by one person with all that persons predisposition with all of his prejudices, with all of his good assets, as well as all of his bad assets, it by one person, it has no really more authority than that.

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Now, this next question is not of a personal nature. But some have said that this Congress is a rubber stamp Congress for Lyndon Johnson. Now you're in the top leadership. You can answer that question. Is it? No, I don't think it is. I think that this Congress is very useful Congress.

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It's obviously cooperating with the president to a great extent, but he's recommending laws which obviously a great majority of the members of Congress approve of. Otherwise they would not vote for it. I'm supposed to be in him a part of the leadership. I don't vote on everything that President John, I don't vote for everything that President Johnson recommends, but about 80% of the things which he recommends I'm before.

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I don't believe we're a rubber stamp Congress or anything like that. On the other hand, I do think that we will, by virtue of the many significant and far reaching laws which we have put on the books this year. I think we'll go down in history as one of the more useful and greater Congresses.

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We mentioned some recent appointments the president made. I'd like to go back to two, which I recall. One was Governor James P. Coleman. He pointed into the fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and the other was a District judge, Thurgood Marshall, appointed as solicitor general. Now do you support both of these appointments?

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Yes, I think the president, after all, with respect to the solicitor general and the attorney general that it's his prerogative to dominate and suggest whom he wants because, after all, the solicitor general, like the attorney like the attorney general, is a part of the executive branch of the government.

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So he has asked their good marshal to take that job. On the other hand, he was in a district court. 1/5 Circuit court touches to serve down in the Mississippi and covers Mississippi and Louisiana, Florida, Georgia and I forget one other state. But in any event, Governor Coleman was about as sensible and a moderate a man as they ever had in the governorship of Mississippi.

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And while he's a Southerner, I think he's an excellent choice. And I think that, as a matter of fact, the high regard in which he is held by the Judiciary Committee is demonstrated by the fact that he got almost a unanimous vote and he's going to be approved by the Senate by almost as big a vote.

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Senators matters. Let's look to the south of us again. For a moment. There's been recent indications of stress and strain in Latin America, particularly in Bolivia, Ecuador and Colombia. Now is there any evidence that you know of a Communist takeover? Might be in the offing there.

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I don't think that it's immediate. I don't think that it's approximate. As the lawyers would say, there has always been a large and active Communist party in Bolivia and Ecuador, and they continue to agitate to all the time also one in Chile until conditions get better economically and literarily, why we're going to have this great danger in those countries.

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But I don't believe that at the moment it's any more of a pressing danger than it has been over the past couple of years. Thank you, Senator George Smathers.