To: fatnotlazy
Extra security might have made a difference and perhaps not. Kennedy had the image of a populist and insisted on pressing flesh.
I think had he been elected he would not have begun an immediate U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam as was advocated by McCarthy and later by McGovern. I think Kennedy would have gone for a phased withdrawl like Nixon accomplished.
Despite all the historical revision, Bobby had a hand in the plots against Castro:
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1316/is_n12_v27/ai_17828366
40 posted on
11/24/2006 11:52:45 AM PST by
Brad from Tennessee
(Anything a politician gives you he has first stolen from you)
To: Brad from Tennessee
I'm not so sure RFK of 1962 was the same guy as RFK of 1968.
43 posted on
11/24/2006 12:07:48 PM PST by
oyez
(Why is it that egalitarians act like royalty?)
To: Brad from Tennessee
Extra security might have made a difference and perhaps not. Kennedy had the image of a populist and insisted on pressing flesh.
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You may be right...I don't know. I was thinking possibly another pair of eyes may have spotted Sirhan Sirhan sooner, or something. But if I were the one who decided to decline the extra security, I would have carried around some rather heavy guilt after Kennedy was shot.
As was pointed out, the Kennedys were akin to the Republican conservatives of today from a political standpoint. Now as to personal morals, well, that's another story.
To: Brad from Tennessee
Despite all the historical revision, Bobby had a hand in the plots against Castro:And don't forget that his work as AG for his brother against "the mob" may have gotten JFK assasinated. A "Law and Order" dem... Boy, have things changed over the years!
Mark
94 posted on
11/24/2006 2:20:06 PM PST by
MarkL
(When Kaylee says "No power in the `verse can stop me," it's cute. When River says it, it's scary!)
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