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In this April 2, , file photo, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, D-N. By Chris Reed. Chris Reed. Follow Us twitter email facebook. More from this Author. Under his leadership we would've made that great leap. And I think he is an example which continues to inspire people, to interest them. They wonder how and why he was so effective, and they mourn the loss of his leadership.
Had he been elected president in we would have gotten out of Vietnam in Certainly in the Nixon years it never did. So there's that sense of unfulfilled promise.
He was deeply human, and flawed, and vibrated with human weakness and fear, as well as human courage and strength, and so that I think that people — whose lives, of course, are complicated — can relate to him as a human being in a way that it's hard to relate to great leaders.
Not simply because he was a martyr, like his brother. Not simply because the family has an extraordinary grip on the public's imagination. But also because he and his brother represented a kind of hope, a kind of vision of the future.
And that was snuffed out with JFK's death in And then it was snuffed out again with Robert Kennedy's assassination in There is this faith, this belief, that if only he had lived, he would've won the presidency in And he would've served for eight years, and brought the country into a kind of golden age, with a volume of liberal laws. So it's the hope that was lost. But that in a sense, by remembering him, by enshrining him in our memories, we keep the hope alive.
And I think that has a lot to do with why John Kennedy and Robert Kennedy, still to this day, have such wide appeal to so many millions of Americans. Because they remember them as bringing hope to the country, a better future, a more promising America, a better world. We can never be disillusioned, because it's always in the unfulfilled future. He never failed, because he was denied the chance, of course.
But he opened the sense of possibilities of change Thomas scoffed at the belief of aforementioned author Gary Paul Gates and others that RFK might have changed the world:. Kennedy was serious about tackling racism and poverty. He was ahead of his political party and his time in his sensitivity to individual pride and initiative.
But in Congress he would have run head on into the power of organized labor still strong back then. Big labor did not like to create low-paying jobs for unskilled workers, thereby diminishing the power of union workers. Kennedy would have been required to face down the barons and their friends in Congress, while fighting off a newly revitalized conservative movement. Which brings us to the view offered by British philosopher-scientist Herbert Spenser more than years ago : The great and not-so-great people who are seen as changing society actually reflect it.
The idea that Hitler was uniquely evil — a demonic outlier who warped a war- and inflation -ravaged nation in his own image — may give solace to those of German or, like Hitler, Austrian heritage. But when it comes to history or alternative history, nonsense is often in the eye of the beholder.
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