In a debate before the California primary in June 1968, Kennedy and McCarthy differed on the extent to which the federal government should support racial integration in housing." But Kennedy sought to balance the interests of blacks and his white constituents. That said, no political candidate, not even President Obama, has attracted the adulation from black crowds that Kennedy did in 1968. "While Johnson passed more legislation to help blacks than any president, Kennedy made speeches. "One reason President Johnson despised Bobby was he was 'all hat no cattle' on racial issues," he said. Stricherz also doubted some depictions of Kennedy as a pioneer on racial justice. And Kennedy was the father of 11 children." But his sister Eunice was an unquestioned pro-life supporter who participated in the last great push to move the Democratic Party away from its abortion-rights stance in 1992. "Social conservatives have said a 1964 meeting he attended would have made him a supporter of abortion rights. With the possible exception of Jimmy Carter's 1976 victory, Stricherz told CNA, "no politician has pulled off that cross-racial, populist alliance of supporters." He focused on working-class whites and blacks, which the senator called a "black-blue" or "have-not" coalition. Eugene McCarthy, his campaign featured labor outreach to leaders such as Cesar Chavez and to African-American leaders such as Martin Luther King, Jr., despite his previous tensions with the Kennedy family.įor Stricherz, Kennedy's 1968 electoral coalition was unique. Kennedy entered the 1968 presidential race in mid-March, an event which may well have prompted President Lyndon Johnson's announcement two week later that he would not seek re-election. Following his brother's 1963 assassination, he left the presidential cabinet and went on to run successfully for U.S. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.Īfter managing his brother's successful 1960 presidential campaign, he was named U.S. Joseph McCarthy and would later write a report critical of his approach to anti-communism, according to the John F. He was a Senate subcommittee staffer under U.S. In 1952 he served as manager for his brother John F. Kennedy's life also included some clashes with clerics, including an argument as a student with controversial Harvard Catholic chaplain Father Leonard Feeney. He served as an altar boy as a young man and even at points during his career of public service, biographer Larry Tye said in his 2017 book Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon.
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Kennedy was often considered one of the more devout Kennedy brothers, with his house full of devotionals, bibles, and crucifixes, and regular prayer with his wife and children. After serving in the Navy during the Second World War, he married Ethel Skakel, with whom he would have eleven children – the last of whom was yet unborn at the time of his death. He was born the seventh of nine children to Joseph and Rosemary Kennedy in Brookline, Mass. Imagine Catholics doing that today," Mark Stricherz, political reporter and author of the 2007 book Why the Democrats are Blue, told CNA. A famous picture from the time shows a busboy, Juan Romero, pressing rosary beads into Kennedy's hands in the kitchen of the hotel. "After Kennedy was shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, many supporters got down on their knees and prayed the rosary. Kennedy was shot in a California hotel on June 5, 1968, his supporters prayed.
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