I do think there’s something to this relationship with people like Cesar Chavez and the Chicanos and the blacks and the Indians. The interesting thing about human beings is that they could pick it up. They knew he was one of them; they knew he cared. And it always seemed to me that when he was being not faithful to himself was when he was worrying about what he was. Bobby had a streak of ruthlessness in him which certainly softened as years went on. I think he was too single-minded about Hoffa. But, I don’t think that’s an undesirable streak. I don’t know if it was ruthlessness so much as a demand for... pushing yourself, and if you pushed yourself you felt, well you ought to push others too. Well, whenever he started thinking about this, that’s when he got hung-up, and he got all messed up I think psychologically. And he would ease it... when he would break into a joke about it- great self-deprecatory humor, great self-deprecatory humor.
─ Sander Vanocur
