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 Post NY, no more primaries. An inside game where McC had no leverage, RFK might have had...
@greenfield64 @JohnJHarwood Bill Daley thinks that after CA, RFK could have done business w his father, who considered Vietnam War absurd.
@BeschlossDC @JohnJHarwood Thurston Clarke's book spells the Daley argument out. Richard Wade was RFK campaign's link to Da Mare...
@greenfield64 @JohnJHarwood And of course an alternative version of this episode in Jeff Greenfield's excellent "Then Everything Changed."
@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.
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