"That would clearly do it," he said, adding, "
I'm going to go at it through a constitutional amendment, if it can't be done through a piece of legislation."
Here's the full quote from the transcript:
ENSOR: What about a constitutional amendment, I asked Biden. Isn't that what you're going to end up supporting if you want to stop court ordered busing too?
BIDEN: That would clearly do it. We are trying to figure out whether or not we can come up with an innovative piece of legislation which would limit the remedy and I don't honestly don't know whether we can come up with something constitutional. And if we can't I will not in an attempt to eliminate busing violate the Constitution. I won't do that. The only way if I'm going to go at it, I'm going to go at it through a constitutional amendment if it can't be done through a piece of legislation.
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Biden also warned in the interview that one of the reasons many liberals were in favor of busing is that racists were against it.
"I think that part of the reason why much of this has not developed, much of the change has not developed, is because it has been an issue that has been in the hands of the racist," Biden said, "and
we liberals have out-of-hand rejected it because, if George Wallace is for it, it must be bad. And so we haven't really looked at it. Now there's a confluence of streams.
There is academic ferment against it — not majority, but academic ferment against it. There are young blacks and young white leaders against it."