I am more interested in people who were alive then and can remember what he campaigned on and how people responded to him.
2006-11-25 15:04:40 · 12 answers · asked by Perplexed 7 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
True you are right campaign promises mean nothing. I just wonder how people responded to him, what they actually thought of him.
2006-11-25 15:10:44 · update #1
can't you tell the bad guys were really afraid of him becoming president! ! !
they knew he was going to win hands down.and they also knew he was going to do good by the people and take down the bad guys in this country..why else do you think he was killed
he would have been the best prez yet....
all the bad guys were so afraid of him making it, because they knew he would have everyone on his side and they would have to stop doing business as usual....
and he may have been the first one to actually keep his campaign promises too..
we will never see anyone like that ever again...
a very sad thing...very sad...
and he loved the sea and boating and water just like his bigger brother John.....
good luck
2006-11-26 06:55:46 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Some one once said that Americans saw John Kennedy as what they could be and Richard Nixon as what they were. Robert Kennedy was the heart and soul of what the Kennedy administration was. He would have ended the Vietnam war and found a better way to make the country a more positive country. Instead we wound up with Nixon. He was a good statesman but a man who was surrounded
with corrupt people. His ideas were small like he was. This country never recovered from Robert Kennedy's assassination. It took a giant leap backward.
Nixon was responsible for the persecution of people who were liberals in the early 1950's. They labeled them "Pinkos" For being sort of Communist. Nixon, Roy Cohen and Joe McCarthy were on a rampage to prosecute people for something that was not against the law. It is not against the law to belong to the communist party. They ruined a lot of peoples lives in Hollywood and in the movies in order to push their political agenda. Nixon later became Eisenhower's Vice president. Eisenhower couldn't stand him.
So this is what replace Bobby Kennedy. Bobby had been the first official to take on organized crime. J. Edgar Hoover refused to do anything to the Mafia. He was being black mailed for being gay.By the way Roy Cohen (See citizen Cohen) was also gay and died from AIDs.
Robert brought the mafia crime bosses to trial and prosecuted them as attorney general. He broke the back of the mafia despite the fact that they helped get Jack his brother elected. Some feel this is why he was assassinated.
The Country had just lost Martin Luther King. Hoover wasted time collecting information on King and Malcolm X but not the Mafia. Hoover hated Bobby Kennedy. He was afraid that the Mafia would out him. Back then to be gay was like being a child molester.
Robert Kennedy would have been a great president. You have to wonder why both John and Robert Kennedy were assassinated along with Martin Luther King. I feel J Edgar Hoover had a lot to do with it. This has always been hushed and ignored but it doesn't take much to see it when you look at history.
2006-11-25 23:27:31 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
It seemed that he was genuine; perhaps more so than his brother, the President. But... he was a Kennedy.
I guess we will never know for sure.
That was a time when, in spite of the demonstrations, Vietnam, and the usual accusations that government was covering up this or that, Americans were proud to be Americans. I still am.
2006-11-25 23:12:40 · answer #3 · answered by howdigethere 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
He was a liberal, very dovish on Vietnam. But I wonder if he would have pull out of Vietnam or maybe stay the course. Don't forget he went throughout a complete metamorphosis after his brother's death. He changed in many ways. I think we would have problems and wouldn't have lived to the expectations.
2006-11-25 23:51:58 · answer #4 · answered by cynical 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He would have been a hell of a lot better than Nixon, who only won because RFK was out of the picture.
RFK would have advanced policies to help the less advantaged. And he would have gotten us out of Vietnam sooner, saving thousands of lives. Nixon, on the other hand, had a "secret plan" to end the war in 1968, which turned out to be a massive acceleration of bombing. It took him four years to realize what RFK already knew: the war was unwinnable, and we needed to cut our losses. If the American people were still behind the war, Nixon would have kept it up!
2006-11-25 23:18:34 · answer #5 · answered by kreevich 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I was alive then, but very young at the time. However, based on history, there's absolutely no way of telling what any politician is going to do based on their campaign.
However, Bobby wasn't nearly as smart as Jack, but a hell of a lot smarter than Ted, if that's useful.
2006-11-25 23:09:45 · answer #6 · answered by open4one 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
He showed a real compassion for those in our society who were less fortunate and those who were wrongly treated. He was against the war in Viet Nam. I think because of the strong public sentiment that still existed because of the assassination of his brother, he would have had a strong agenda that would have been supported in Congress. He would have been a very good president, if he could have avoided the public scrutiny of his private life.
2006-11-25 23:11:43 · answer #7 · answered by bubba 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Better than Nixon that is fur sure.
2006-11-26 00:34:16 · answer #8 · answered by copestir 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not the president, his brother was.
2006-11-25 23:11:50 · answer #9 · answered by bettys 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
he would have made another white man as a president
2006-11-25 23:44:11 · answer #10 · answered by Short Haired Sexy-Person 1 · 1⤊ 3⤋