Reagan and RFK

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1. K & R

RFK was the anti-Ronald Reagan ..

@MichiganHist: Senator Robert Kennedy touring 12th st area affected by riot - 5/1968 Detroit News #DetroitHistory

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2. Jack Paar has a heckuva show in his archive.

The Disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa

Hoffa and the Mob

In 1959 Robert F. Kennedy, the brother of John F. Kennedy who would soon be elected president of the United States, appeared on The Jack Paar Show, America's first late-night television talk show. At the time Bobby Kennedy was chief counsel of the Senate Labor Rackets Committee, better known as the McClellan Committee. Speaking to a national television audience, Kennedy had plenty to say about Jimmy Hoffa and the Teamsters union, and the crusading young attorney was not afraid to name names.

Sitting across from an attentive Jack Paar, their images broadcast across America in grainy black and white, Kennedy said, "All of our lives are too intricately interwoven with this union to sit passively by and allow the Teamsters under Mr. Hoffa's leadership to create such a superpower in this country—a power greater than the people and greater than the Government... Unless something is done, this country is not going to be controlled by the people but is going to be controlled by Johnny Dio and Jimmy Hoffa and Tony 'Ducks' Corallo."

Except for Hoffa's, those names were probably unfamiliar to most Americans, but the directness of Kennedy's accusation was courageous and remarkable. What public official today would go on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno or The Late Show with David Letterman and point the finger at gangsters, using their real names?

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http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/famous/jimmy_hoffa/2.html

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3. B-1 Bob

Compare and contrast the late great (Jackson Michigan's own) Jack Paar to the efforts of Steve Allen and his buddy B-1 Bob Dornan to muddy the issues with Jim Garrison and Mort Sahl.

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4. The difference between the two men.

Patti Davis: When I asked for a record player (IIRC) my dad said I could have had one if the government didn't take half of his pay in taxes.



Kathleen Kennedy Townsend: One day at lunch we complained about the cold soup and my father got very angry and told us about the children with distended bellies in Mississippi he had just met and that we should be grateful for what we have.



The fathers' reactions say it all.

Forgive for the paraphrasing.

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5. RFK: Remembering Our Father

The New York Times asked three of the late Sen. Kennedy's children to write about their father:

RFK: Remembering Our Father



Lessons of the Magnolia Tree
By Kerry Kennedy

Taking ‘No’ for an Answer
By Joseph P. Kennedy II

The Delta in Our Home
By Kathleen Kennedy Townsend

How I found this from my journal on DU2: Searched around what H20 Man's father said to him:

More than his untimely death, we need to focus on what the life of this great man meant. Thank you for remembering, Boomerproud.

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6. Couldn't finish watching

Both for the sadness of what might have been with Bobby, but also because that British guy was annoying as hell!