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@ formed=+3 look at him. They did not watch Kennedy. He stood on the stage with his head down and now the silver drops on his eyclashea had turned to wet streaks on his cheeks. When the question was finished, Kennedy started to say something and then he lapscd into silence and now everybody could see that he was having trouble. Finaily Kennedy said, “. .. Ah, just a ene ae eee MULE PIcase. Tne head went down. Lis right foot moved back and forth on the wooden floor. His hand kept running through his hair, and his cyes crinkled and his face showed more of the wetness. His wife, sitting in a front row, stiffened and leaned forward. Kennedys do not cry, they say. But Kennedys are human and maybe this one has held himself together for too long, and has used too much of his okt Irish stand-up guts Mayhe new he rates what his emotions demand. The people in the hall seemed to be saying this, hecause they were silent and they were moved as they watched him stand and live through November again. Finally, the head came up and he went on as he had before. But it was a night in this campaign that cannot be forgotten because what happened is so much a part of him. But then there are other times when it is all dif- ferent. The name of his brother is used casually and continually in his campaign and there are ng tears, Omtymditions, And the crowds come and they mob him because of the Name and the kids show up and squeal for the youth the name represents, and he never would get ail this adulation himsclf because he simpiy ia not that exciting personally, The hair is uncombed and it blows and the finger points and the voice is the same. So arc, in many spots, the words. But it is a different music this time. This is a Kennedy, but a Kennedy without the tremendous excitement the other one had. This one comes with music of his own, a lower music than the brother’s. Maybe a harder music, too. He cannot gencrate the drive that the other one had in his personal music. And because of this, they can fight him a little bit more. He uses the brother's Tame without tcars and without that ov erpowcring music and they say, who the heil is this guy coming around here as if he had divine right, and taking over SRPanowus cts ey Bat SSLV OTE Flee MASSA GTI, Vee ls this state on his brother's name? Who is this guy who sat in the back of a black limousine and drove through Washington with a big dog in the front next to .. the chauffeur and him, at 36, on the phone in the back giving orders to half of the country? Who is he, this rich man's son who happened to be the brother of a President and now wants everything in sight because of it? Who is he to be coming in here just beeause Lyndon Johnson didn't make him Vice-President? Who is s he and what the hell do you cali what he is trying da But there is another way. People see him. They say, when you look at him their way, that this is a guy who is so inexperienced that he only lived through a Presidency with his brother, a Presidency that included the Cuban missile threat and Mississippi and, above anything, an assassination. They say that Lyndon John- son, right after the assassination, wanted Bobby Ken- Bt 28 Se ates FO ee TO bent “araty-oh the phone. He didn’t just call to cotheute—hielt. He calicd him for advice. Should he be sworn in as President right therc in Dallas or shqnid he wait and come hack to Washington. And Bobby Kennedy, in his gricf, advised him what to do. And they say, what's the matter with having a man tike this in New York? a Who the hell clse do we have around here? Where is a there a Democrat in the whole state worth running for an office as big as Senator? Where is there one? There isn't. There is nothing around here. This is a state filled with the worst sct of Democratic politicians we've ever seen. They are little lawycrs who join a ncighbor- hand aluh and hanes tn mabe a, aenee theaneh onlitical WO Ci ath NOPt (6 Make gs HOTS war Oug rs paresis connections, and they spend their lives chasing am- bulances or smart deals and they are all worth nothing. Why shouldn’t we have a man like Bobhy Kennedy around here? an ets Bete But no matter whieh ¢ way they say it, they say it hecause of his connection with his brother. It is the whole thing about Bobby Kennedy's life so far, this connection with his brother, and it is one of the things | that make him complex and this campaign against” Senator Kenneth Keating one of the higgest New York ever has had. ft is the name that docs it. 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