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In reply to the discussion: You Tell Us: When Did The Spirit Of The '60s End? [View all]coalition_unwilling
(14,180 posts)a reputation as a nasty little son of a bitch, Joseph McCarthy's staffperson and JFK's enforcer. But something happened to RFK after November 22, 1963 and it is indisputable that he had evolved into something truly awesome by the time of his New York Senatorial campaign. (There's this wonderful anecdote somewhere about how he and his aides were touring Bedford Stuyvesant and his aides did not want him to go see a really bad building there. RFK over-rode his aides and went over there to the building in person. When I read about that little gem, I started weeping and immediately forgave RFK all his previous sins and hubris.)
RFK may have personally kept Indianapolis from going up in flames after MLK was assassinated, such was the moral authority he came to wield among the nation's dispossessed.