Robert Kennedy using a telephone during the DNC, Los Angeles, California, August 1960.
I think that certainly during this campaign [in 1960] his actions were controlled by one overriding objective, and that was to elect his brother. I think, again, this is part of where the ruthless — because he upset a lot of people. He was the person who would have to do the tough things and say the tough things... There was this young, relatively young person, very slight physical makeup up on a chair telling everybody exactly what they had to do... I think that in a campaign or in the political process there have to be people who have to bargain and do things that are unpleasant, and I think he did all those unpleasant things. I think he was a lightning rod, which he perfectly well knew and accepted.
─ David Hackett
