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RFK remembered and still missedAs a presidential candidate, he made waves, he made mistakes and he made important enemies. He would regularly scold his audiences for their selfishness. Not content simply to comfort the afflicted, always his most loyal constituency, he deliberately chose to afflict the comfortable, as well.
And after he won the critical California presidential primary on June 4,1968, Sen. Robert Francis Kennedy, D-New York,age 42, was assassinated in Los Angeles.
In those 35 years, much too much has changed in our nation and in our world. But the legacy of Robert Kennedy is timeless. He was the rare candidate with the guts to tell his listeners not just what he clearly believed, but also what his listeners clearly did not want to hear, and still win -- over strenuous White House opposition -- five of the six primaries he had time to enter in his 85-day campaign.
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Matthew Carroll-Schmidt at 3:10 PM
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