Opinion of Robert F. Kennedy

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Massive FF. I strongly believe we'd be off of oil now had he been elected President.

Was he necessarily a 'nice' guy? No. Would we have been out of Vietnam and more advanced technologically than we are today had he been elected President? Almost certainly 'yes'. I'd have happily voted for him over the crook and corporatist Nixon, no matter how much I differ from him economically.

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^ So would you vote for Nixon over him, knowing that Nixon would champion OSHA, EPA, price controls, the bombing of Cambodia, and so forth?

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^ So would you vote for Nixon over him, knowing that Nixon would champion OSHA, EPA, price controls, the bombing of Cambodia, and so forth?

I think I would vote for Kennedy over Nixon.

Beautiful. Maybe you're not quite so wingnutty as the rest of them.

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And the silly (and purely personal) mutual hatred between him and LBJ did a lot of harm.

He had a similar relationship with J. Edgar Hoover, if I'm not mistaken.

F**k J. Edgar Hoover. That alone is enough to make Kennedy a hero, if not a saint.

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And the silly (and purely personal) mutual hatred between him and LBJ did a lot of harm.

He had a similar relationship with J. Edgar Hoover, if I'm not mistaken.

F**k J. Edgar Hoover. That alone is enough to make Kennedy a hero, if not a saint.

I didn't mean to imply that their relationship did any harm.  I was asking if it was true that there was animosity.

Almost certainly on Hoover's part; he apparently suggested that Nixon make Kennedy's womanizing an issue in the campaign, if Kennedy won the nomination.