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big. Say one. Take 1, 14. 45 Smathers. How do you do? Ladies and gentlemen, I'm delighted to have is my guest at this time a very dear personal friend of mine, A very powerful member of the Foreign Relations Committee of the United States Senate and a young man about whom we have all been reading a great deal in the past.

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And we'll read much more about in the future. That is the senator from Massachusetts. Jack Kennedy. Jack, you're on the Foreign Relations Committee. What do you think about summit meeting? You think we should have? No, I don't think there's any doubt that we have to go to the summit.

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One obvious reason is that the United States, for its own security, is going to have to establish missile base in the Western Europe in order to be able to dominate the Heartland of the Soviet Union, prevent them from attacking us, can't have those bases in Western Europe unless public opinion supports public opinion in Western Europe is overwhelmingly in favor.

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Have a conference at the summit. United States should refuse to go after the Soviet Union. Has point made so many messages demanding a meeting. I think it would place us in an impossible position. So in answer to your question, I think we have to go to the Senate.

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Alright, well, let me ask you this. Do you think that any good result will come from that summit meeting other than just to pacify our European friends? Well, but that's important. But I would think that there might be some chance to reach some agreement on disarmament.

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Carol Stashing has said that they were extremely close in London during those discussions. Think that there are some indications that the administration may be modifying some of its positions on testing hydrogen weapon? I would think that that might be one area that we might get agreement.

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I don't see any chance for agreement on Germany or on the withdrawal of troops from Europe. The bread lot and we hear a lot about the missile program and much attention. Much money is being devoted to it. Do you think that that are we overlooking some vital area in our foreign relations field and our concentration on this missile program?

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I think we have to have the missiles because the Soviet Union has and ah therefore, we have to maintain this ability to annihilate them if they should attack us. But within that framework and that is only a frame, there is the constant Soviet efforts the economic, political subversion, all the rest to infiltrate vital areas in the Middle East, Asia and in North Africa, which were dependent on for Abraham, on which we depend upon for raw materials.

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And I think that is the most the greatest danger at the present time. Do you think that we should all get behind a great foreign assistance program what you're feeling? I think that the day of grants or coming to an end, I believe that we should 48 realistic loan program.

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I think that's much more satisfactory to them and certainly to us some programs that we hope to get some real basic return on. I would say that would be one element exchange of persons, more effective information services, more effective support of nationalistic aspirations. Those are all the things that I think we have to do.

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Let's turn for just a second in the domestic situation. What's it like up in New England now? Are the people suffering from a major depression up there? Well, no. But we have some of our industries, our old marginal, and therefore they feel it. Quite soon, we're about 7.5% people unemployed, but it is concentrated in some cities where they're up to 15, 18, even 20% of how long do you think it's going to last?

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Afraid that the president's talk of an upturn in March was premature certainly looks as if it may go to the third quarter of this year. I'll be hopeful that it might go sooner, and I think we're going to have to take if it doesn't quite affirmative action.

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I'm hopeful with your finance Committee will move in a number of different ways to provide more consumer purchasing power during the spring if we don't get enough turn this month. But you do feel that there are measures which this government can take and will take that will end this present recession that we're in.

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Yes, that's right. I think they have to take them at the right time. Otherwise, that the money is wasted in the situation becomes more were, thank you very much. Senator Jack Kennedy for these views, and thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen, for looking in. I hope you're looking again at the same time next week.