CBS News - RFK death - 1968-06-06 - 2 of 2

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[0:32] they reached the white house yet no

[0:34] politician in modern times engendered

[0:36] such extremes of devotion and

[0:39] distrust it was in all probability

[0:41] because of an unusual set of factors

[0:43] some peculiar to American Life some

[0:46] peculiar to Kennedy's life they pulled

[0:48] against each other working to his

[0:50] advantage and his

[0:53] disadvantage there was his public

[0:55] identification with his brother John F

[0:57] Kennedy in the golden years of the new

[0:59] frontier

[1:00] he was associated with the glamour of

[1:02] the early 60s when the White House had

[1:04] youth style and a French chef and

[1:07] government looked like fun he seemed

[1:09] capable of endowing his followers many

[1:11] of whom embarrassed him by running ahead

[1:14] with a zest for the notion that a single

[1:16] person can make this a better world we

[1:19] can't find answers to them completely

[1:21] but at least we'll face them and at

[1:22] least we'll make progress with them his

[1:24] appeal was most obvious for the

[1:26] country's youth particularly its college

[1:28] students he told them they were were

[1:30] important that they must participate

[1:32] even though their Elders in government

[1:33] industry and education did not trust

[1:36] them he trusted

[1:39] them you have much greater stake at than

[1:44] than any of the rest of us because

[1:45] you've got the least ties to the past

[1:47] and and really to the present and the

[1:49] and the greatest stake in the future

[1:51] much more than any of those that are

[1:52] presently within government so what we

[1:54] do and the decisions that we make

[1:55] obviously have greatest effect on all of

[1:58] you to

[2:00] make your voices heard and to work for

[2:03] policies and programs that yo

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