#1968 campaign

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1968 anti-bobby kennedy pin

[kennedyaesthetic]

Robert Kennedy died on June 6, 1968, at the age of forty-two. He lived through a time of unusual turbulence in American history; and he responded to that turbulence more directly and sensitively than any other political leader of the era. He was equipped with certitudes of family and faith – certitudes that sustained him till his death. But they were the premises, not the conclusions, of his life. For he possessed to an exceptional degree what T. S. Eliot called an “experiencing nature.” History changed him, and, had time permitted, he might have changed history. His relationship to his age makes him, I believe, a “representative man” in Emerson’s phrase – one who embodies the consciousness of an epoch, who perceives things in fresh lights and new connections, who exhibits unsuspected possibilities of purpose and action to his contemporaries.

He never had the chance to fulfill his own possibilities, which is why his memory haunts so many of us now. Because he wanted to get things done, because he was often impatient and combative, because he felt simply and cared deeply, he made his share of mistakes, and enemies. He was a romantic and an idealist, and he was also prudent, expedient, demanding and ambitious. Yet the insights he brought to politics – insights earned in a labor of self-education that only death could stop – led him to see power not as an end in itself but as the means of redeeming the powerless.

- Robert Kennedy and His Times by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. 

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An exuberant Robert Kennedy, one of the last glimpses we have of him, 1968

[kennedyaesthetic]

- RFK at the Cleveland City Club, April 5, 1968

[timaeuslover001]

Jack McCoy Headcanon #2

Jack jokes that his lat president he voted for got shot in 1968 inning at Bobby Kennedy campaign in '68.

But he has voted for since and since he’s not tied to any party he voted for people that’ not apart of the major parties in the USA and so they never get elected.

(I watched The Bobby for President documentary and loved every second of it. His son even said it’s the most loving and accurate story of his father♥️ which makes give the stank eye to every Kennedy documentary and tv series before but aside from that RFK was the last genuine candidate who actually wanted to help the citizens and I think Jack would have noticed that and appreciated that and you can’t ignore REAL when REAL shows up.)

[majianguo]

I was compelled to watch this documentary since my dad had actually shook Bobby Kennedy’s hand during his 1968 presidential campaign stop in Hammond, Indiana.  My dad always said that it was for certain that he would have become president of the United States. 

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Ethel and Bobby campaigning in Laporte,Ind.