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Transcription: [00:34:28]
[[background talking, in crowded area]]

[00:34:29]
[[audience member 1]]
Mr Baldwin, do you advocate a third party? And if so, do you have any in mind?

[00:34:40]
{SPEAKER name="James Baldwin"}
I'm sorry, the question is do I advocate a third party and if so, do I have any in mind.

[00:34:47]
I beg your pardon. I'm sorry the question was: do I advocate a third party and if so, do I have any in mind.

[00:34:57]
I know the honest answer I can give to that, is to say, that it's a question which much occupies my mind.

[00:35:06]
I have not thought my way through on it, I certainly don't have any existing party in mind, no.

[00:35:11]
I have thought of-- and I still think of-- the possibility of a fusion party, that's the word I want.

[00:35:18]
Because there are so many elements of the Republican and Democratic Parties, which are unusable and um, and menacing.

[00:35:27]
As long as [[??]] is in the Democratic Party, I have a certain amount of trouble becoming very enthusiastic about the Democratic Party. [[clapping]]

[00:35:42]
[[audience member 2]]
Mr. Baldwin, as you interpret the American scene, how do you accommodate,

[00:35:50]
in your apparent philosophy, the apparent intent of major civil rights organizations to neither agitate nor demonstrate

[00:36:01]
until President Johnson's reelection, we can congratulate?

[00:36:05]
[[laughter, clapping]]

[00:36:12]
{SPEAKER name="James Baldwin"}
Well, since I am not, myself, nor a major civil rights organization.

[00:36:21]
[[laughter, clapping]]

[00:36:28]
I don't understand the strategy. I

Transcription Notes:
Can't figure out the name of the member of the Democratic Party at 35:28 - Eastland? Eastman....both were democrats during this time