See this excerpt from the only Robert Kennedy-Eugene McCarthy "debate," June 1, 1968: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dejk0SQVzzk …pic.twitter.com/vCMIA6OQFm
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@BeschlossDC @JohnJHarwood Not very.Margin in CA was only 46-42. But some of his backers (Sam Brown) were going to jump.
@greenfield64 @JohnJHarwood Methinks you might have had a long summer trying to wear down McCarthy's excuses for staying in the race.
@BeschlossDC Would've been like asking the Dalai Lama to abdicate.
@ChrisConnelly Dalai Lama doesn't have the expansive view of his place in the cosmos that Gene may have had of his own by that point in '68.
@BeschlossDC That is a true story. Gene might've gone at RFK all the way to Chicago like his most donnish instructor at Portsmouth Priory.
@ChrisConnelly As long as he lived, McCarthy never got over his bitterness at RFK for coming into the 1968 race.
@BeschlossDC @ChrisConnelly This is why I love Twitter. For threads like this one...
@BeschlossDC @greenfield64 @JohnJHarwood This CA girl, 21 in 1968, knew McCarthy did NOT have Bobby's social issue concern, so he'd lose.
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