Nixon on LBJ: The Last Sitting President to Not Seek Renomination (Video)

By N.S. (Richard Nixon Foundation)

Note that the President argues that a major feature of Johnson's decline (the press' turning on him) was his separating himself from the Kennedys. However, in a book from circa 2010 which had been downloaded online, but which I can no longer find, the author demonstrated how working with Bobby Kennedy was an impossibility for Johnson. As I wrote a month ago (though it seemed like much longer),

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.

I'm not sure "arrogant" is even a strong enough word to describe Robert F. Kennedy Sr.