Lyndon Johnson and the Attorney General

Robert Caro: Lyndon Johnson tried to make amends with Bobby Kennedy. He said, I don't understand you, Bobby. Your father likes me and your brother likes me. But you don't like me? Now why? Why don't you like me?" The former vice president had a chip on his shoulder about the Kennedy crowd; he referred to them resentfully as "Harvard's" John Avlon: It was part of an effort to ingratiate himself after attacks on Joe Kennedy were misquoted at the 1960 convention.