"This was a totally political animal": President Nixon on Bobby Kennedy (brief video)

Re-posted by N.S.



Note how much more generous the President was than Bobby.

Bobby Kennedy was a man lacking in generosity, even towards his fellow democrats. In a book that came out 10-15 years ago on Lyndon Johnson's foreign policy, the author said that when Jack Kennedy was conferring with his vice president, Bobby (then Jack's AG) was wont to burst into the room, without excusing himself, indeed without acknowledging that Johnson even existed. And when the communist Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated Kennedy, Bobby kept trying to stall Johnson's ascendance to the presidency, because Bobby thought that HE should have become president, the Constitution be damned!

I think "arrogant" is a more accurate descriptor of Bobby Kennedy, who was drenched in hubris.