Rabbit F. Kennedy

I never cared for the man, and when he began to elblow his way on to
the anti-war platform that Gene McCarthy, against enormous odds had
been building beneath his own candidacy in that election year, I then
knew that spoiled, rich brat for the cheap opportunist that Jimmie
Hoffa always said he was. Hillary would be right to name RFK for her
main source of inspiration. Or come to think, she already sort of has,
hasn't she? Obtusely speaking of things that can happen in June other
than weddings, like funerals--or would those two be synonymous?

From Wiki . . .

The weekend before the New Hampshire primary, Kennedy announced to
several aides that he would attempt to persuade little-known Senator
Eugene McCarthy of Minnesota to withdraw from the presidential race.
Johnson won an astonishingly narrow victory in the New Hampshire
primary on March 12, 1968, against McCarthy. Kennedy declared his
candidacy on March 16, 1968, stating, "I do not run for the Presidency
merely to oppose any man, but to propose new policies. I run because I
am convinced that this country is on a perilous course and because I
have such strong feelings about what must be done, and I feel that I'm
obliged to do all I can."

McCarthy supporters angrily denounced Kennedy as an opportunist, and
thus the anti-war movement was split between McCarthy and Kennedy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Kennedy_presidential_campaign,_1968
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