Was Robert Kennedy the Greatest President who never was ?

Question

I just saw the film Bobby, and I am so in awe of what he stood for.

Answer 1

Bobby" is a fictionalized account of various people whose lives intersect in the hours leading up to and including the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. The film is a journey of the heart that examines the relationships between men and women, between races and the social divisions that have clipped away the foundation of our humanity. We are given a glimpse into how life can be drastically changed in a moment in time, an indelible event in our nation's history. The characters are ordinary American's who find themselves at the epicenter of one of the most important incidents of the 20th Century. "Bobby" is not a political story, though politics are certainly an undercurrent. It is not the story of Bobby Kennedy (seen solely in newsreel footage). Rather, it is the story of all of us. "Bobby" is seen through the eyes of 22 characters. The hope, excitement and notion that a change is in the air, which Kennedy ignited in us all, black and white, rich and poor, young and old was extinguished that evening in June.


Robert F. Kennedy, U.S. Senator

Born: 20 November 1925
Birthplace: Brookline, Massachusetts
Died: 6 June 1968 (assassination)
Best Known As: The assassinated brother of John Kennedy
Robert F. Kennedy was a candidate for U.S. president when he was assassinated in 1968. His death was doubly shocking because his older brother, President John F. Kennedy, had also been assassinated five years earlier. Robert was the seventh of nine children of Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy. He left Harvard to enlist in the U.S. Navy during World War II. After the war he completed his degree, then earned a law degree from the University of Virginia. In the 1950s he was counsel to a U.S. Senate committee investigating labor unions, leading to his well-known feud with Teamsters leader Jimmy Hoffa. But Kennedy's political career is more closely associated with his brother, John; he managed JFK's successful campaigns for the U.S. Senate (1952) and the presidency (1960), and then served as Attorney General in the JFK administration. After his brother's 1963 assassination, Robert Kennedy served briefly with the Lyndon Johnson administration, then successfully ran for senator from New York. (This win was often recalled in 2000 when another New York "outsider," Hillary Clinton, similarly won a senate race there.) In early 1968 Kennedy declared his candidacy for the U.S. presidency. He was shot by Sirhan Sirhan at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles on June 5, 1968, just after delivering a speech to supporters upon winning the California primary. He died early the next morning. Kennedy's book Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis was published posthumously in 1969.

Kennedy and his wife Ethel were married on 17 June 1950 and had 11 children; the last, Rory, was born after RFK's death... His son Joseph Patrick Kennedy, Jr. was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts from 1987-1999... Eldest daughter Kathleen Kennedy Townshend was lieutenant governor of Maryland from 1995-2003... Son David died of a drug overdose in 1984... Son Michael Kennedy was killed in a skiing accident in 1997... Ethel Kennedy is an aunt of Michael Skakel, who in 2002 was convicted of the 1976 murder of Martha Moxley... Robert Kennedy is buried in Arlington National Cemetery, near the graves of John Kennedy and former First Lady Jackie Kennedy.

Answer 2

Really?? What did he REALLY stand for as opposed to what he "said" he stood for. Remember, the Kennedys have memorialized both John and Robert, both of whom were not the best of individuals (re: Marilyn Munroe, etc.) and neither of whom accomplished much politically. Most of JFK's ideas were realized AFTER his death when JBJ roughed them through a Congress still in mourning. My father knew both John and Robert. Of Robert he said he was the brighter but had the personality of a rattlesnake and would never be President. Of John, he said he had all the tools and personality and would make a fine President. He told me that the day JFK was elected to Congress. I was then eight years old and never forgot his words. About JFK, he could never have been more wrong.

Answer 3

He was a great man who would have made a fantastic president, but here are some other great men who were never elected president.

1. Alexander Hamilton, He started our financial success

2. Ben Franklin, The first great American Genius

3. Winfield Scott, After the Mexican War the people of Mexico loved him so much they begged him to be their President.

4. Daniel Webster, One of the greatest American speakers and congressman.

5. Henry Clay, The Great Congressman who kept us out of the Civil War from 1820-1850

Any one of these people can be considered the greatest President who never was.

Answer 4

This type of question can not be answered with any true meaning. Many people had potential, but were killed or died prematurely. We can only guess at what someone might have done if they had lived. There are also many people who have not been a candidate for President, because of what the public attention would do to their family, who would have been great Presidents.

Answer 5

RFK is a great liberal myth. They overlook the fact that:
It was RFK that approved the FBI bugging of Martin Luther King. It was the Kennedy administration that got the USA in Vietnam in the first place, approved the murder of President Diem of Vietnam, attempted assassinations of Castro. "Bobby" was a political creature just like his brother.
It was the the mob got JFK elected to the presidency. RFK like JFK cheated on their spouses relentlessly.
RFK as president would have been a prettier version of Richard Nixon.

Answer 6

The same thing could be asked about John Kennedy Junior.
Who can say. All I know is that GW is the worst President that never should have been.

Answer 7

he was not the president jfk was,,,bobby was running for president,, but he has the most potential to be the best or at least one of the best,,,but history shows we always do not have the best person in the presidential seat

Answer 8

There is new evidence to implicate him and Peter Lawford in Marilyns death he did sexual relations with that woman.

Answer 9

Fool, almost everyone knows that "THEY" were the greatest Prez who won't ever be elected