The Nation, June 21st, 1993
Robert F. Kennedy, as numerous twenty-five-years-after assessments remind us, was perhaps more important for what he became than for what he had been: the ambitious junior staffer on the McCarthy Committee, the overzealous Senate investigator of labor racketeering, the effective Attorney General who managed to mobilize the Kennedy charisma on behalf of personal causes (fighting organized crime, getting Jimmy Hoffa and, after a slow start, securing civil rights for minorities) and finally, what Jack Newfield liked to call the "existential" Senator and the presidential candidate who campaigned...
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