Bobby

Bobby, the Robert F. Kennedy Story - The Man & His Dream


I remember a book by a woman author that I read about fifteen years ago, which it might be this one guessing from from the title, and it had then made a great impression that still remains. The book was about the ideas, the dreams, the ideology and the achievements of the Kennedy administration, including the emancipation steps forward, the southern obstructions and opposition to equal rights hammered at resolutely, - according to this writer Bobby was the man behind it all while Jack had the credit, which is not to say Jack was a figurehead much less opposed but merely that while he was gentler Bobby was the force behind that was needed to make it happen.


I remember the description of her personal reaction to Bobby's death as given by the author, something along the lines of "when Jack died we mourned terribly but we still had Martin Luther King Jr., and when he too was murdered we mourned but we still had Bobby; but when Bobby was gone we wept, we had no one, no more hope, and we were lost".

That is not an exact quote of course, merely as well as I can now remember after this long.