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Ep. 69: Bobby Kennedy and His Enemies (Part 1)

The Re-Education with Eli Lake

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The Rise and Fall of Bobby Kennedy

There's some sense that Kennedy was maturing to some degree. He was less of a vendetta driven person and used more soaring rhetoric in this period. I think there was something to it now, you know, part of it is you've not Attorney General, so he doesn't have the same vendetta capacities. And his staff at the time, they all talk about how the greatest privilege over their lives was to work for Bobby Kennedy. It just suggests that he was more inclusive and less abusive than we remember him as being.

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