The Chapel Hill weekly., 1963-05-26
A Talk With A. H. SANDY Graham
Continued from Page u

to think that things would be bet
ter the way they were years ago,
but this is not the same thing.
Logically, there's only so far you
can 60. there's got to be a break
ing point somewhere.
I'm afraid | don't think much
of Mr.. Kennedy. | voted for him,
but don't think much of him
now, OF course all presidents
lose favor, but | think it's going
to take a strong, hard drive for
him to regain what he's lost. |
suppose | voted for Mr.. Kennedy
because he was the lesser of two
evils. | didn't like Mr.. Nixon,
and still don't. But when Mr..
Kennedy put in his brother as
Attorney General, | thought that
was grave mistake, first for
the nepotism, and second for the
brother. Robert Kennedy did a
fine political job getting his bro
ther the nomination, a fine job
of politics, but he'd never been in
court. He had no real experience
as a lawyer. And now he gets
himself all dressed up and ap-
pears before the Supreme Court.
That's not the basis on which an
Attorney General is chosen"
Mr.. Graham was running hard
in second gear now. The subject
was obviously one that ranked
deep inside him.
And look at the Cuban situa-
ton. The Bay of Pigs. Kennedy
made false statements, and he
must have known that some of
those statements were false. No
Americans were involved he
said, and then we come to find
out that four or five Americans
were killed and their widows have
been getting monthly cOmpenSa-
ton payments all this time. That's
crushing blow. | Just lost all
confidence in Mr.. Kennedy after
that.
"A Republican might do some
good as a candidate, but Mr..
Kennedy's going to be renominat-.
ed, OF course. | don't know
whether a Republican would do
the country any good or not. I
haven't chosen a candidate. The
old party lines are not as clear
cut as they used to be. Most of the
Republicans are generally con-
Sidered conservatives. ard most
CT the Democrats are generally
considered liberals, but there
have got to be. some party re-
allgnmentS, particularly when you
have Senators like Byrd of Vir-
ginia, and then you have Sena-
tors like Russell of Georgia.
There have got to be some party
realignments, and | think they'll
come, maybe not in the next
Presidential election, maybe not
for six or eight years, but they'll
come. I think We'll stop the lib
eral trend.
Nov you look at this admin
Stration overe here, Terry San
ford, he said in a speech the other
day that he wanted to set up a
toll road commission. Why,
there's no more need for a toll
road commission than there is for
$ a red-tailed blackbird commits
sion, for the propagation thereof.
We have a system of roads in
North Carolina that's good enough
to handle tremendous volume
of traffic. But you can build a
road from the eastern part of
the State to the western part of
the State, straight through, BY
passing all your towns, and a toll
won't pay for it. A toll won't re-
tire the bonds for it. People just
won't use a toll road, they'll 90
around it and take other roads,
unless they're in a terrible hurry
to go straight through. What I'm
saying is that we have roads that
will handle the traffic, but we
don't have enough traffic to paw
for roads with tolls because we
have too many other good roads
for people to use instead.
I'm not saying North Carolina
roads are perfect, but they're a
whole lot better than the roads
in the states around us. They're
better tn a n South Cardinals
roads, and they're better than
Vlrglnia's roads. Virginia has
three-lane highways, and that's
one thing | can brag about,
never built a three-lane highway.