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apparently the majority of the American people are accepting a regressiveness in all aspects of our society. It seems to me to be contrary to the ideals, the ideology that gave gained some kind of impetus to the Roosevelt economic equity approach and to the civil rights movement. What we are saying is, we've had enough of this. And if you've had enough of it and if you are using the instruments of government and the power of government to turn it back, and if this succeeds, this to me is a rather serious dilution, deterioration of what America has been saying about itself, even when it's been inconsistent. It's been saying from the beginning of this nation, the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights-- are we saying we've had enough of that. And we have people saying, well, now, you know, you ought to have a re-examination of the Constitution. How long will it be before that actually happens. And I suppose the first casualty in such a re-examination of the Constitution could be the Bill of Rights. I doubt that it will be the Thirteenth Amendment.

But what's happening? And what's happening under the guise of realism, under the guise of Hollywood charm, under the guise of fiscal stability, under the guise of international-- you know, that's another thing that confuses me. Our foreign policy-- looking at South America, Central America, we are saying we're against Communism. But at the same time we say we are against Communism, we have an executive policy saying, let's use our CIA [Central Intelligence Agency] to overthrow a particular