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June 6th, 2008
Washington, DC, _ As the country prepares for four plus months of presidential campaigning there was cause for pause this week as we remember “Bobby Kennedy 40 years later”.
As is the case with his brother JFK the country has long pondered “what would have happened if” Bobby had lived to become president in 1968. The president’s kid brother was just what the country needed in the aftermath of his brother John’s and then Dr. Martin Luther King’s assassination. He would have become president that year and the nation would have been a far different country as a result. As fate would have it Sirhan Sirhan, who still sits in a California prison, ended our round II of Camelot and stole the husband and father of Ethel and their 11 children. Bobby and his family have come to mean commitment to the poor and working people of America and a patriotic faith in the American people and their abilities to do what is right. His friendship with Cesar Chavez whom he called “one of the heroic figures of our time,” propelled the farm worker leader to great fame as one who inspired the country just as his support of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement led America in the right direction. Bobby would be proud today to see Barack Obama following in the greatest American tradition of public service and leadership and he would be so proud of niece Caroline’s role in leading the search for Obama’s running mate on the ticket. We pray and painfully sigh for him, his family and the memories that were and were not allowed to be and we remember these words from his last speech, “Fear not the path of truth for the lack of people walking on it.”
Categories: Bobby Kennedy, CEC Series, Cesar Chavez, Democrats, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., elections
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